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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Sep 17, 2016, 2:38 AM CDT for Harper County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 17, 2016, 2:38 AM CDT (07:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 2016, 6:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Harper County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 163 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 618 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted.
960 WGUS53 KICT 170738 FFWICT KSC077-171130- /O.NEW.KICT.FF.W.0023.160917T0738Z-160917T1130Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 238 AM CDT SAT SEP 17 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN HARPER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 630 AM CDT * AT 236 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL LIKELY. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... CORWIN AND RURAL AREAS BEWTEEN CORWIN AND ATTICA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. && LAT...LON 3706 9835 3721 9835 3721 9809 3706 9809 $$ DARMOFAL
1 follow-up statement
419 WGUS73 KICT 171028 FFSICT FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 528 AM CDT SAT SEP 17 2016 KSC077-171033- /O.CAN.KICT.FF.W.0023.000000T0000Z-160917T1130Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ HARPER KS- 528 AM CDT SAT SEP 17 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN HARPER COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED AND THE THREAT FOR FLASH FLOODING HAS DIMINISHED. HOWEVER SOME CREEKS AND STREAMS IN THE AREA MAY REMAIN HIGH WITH MINOR NUISANCE LOWLAND FLOODING POSSIBLE UNTIL JUST AFTER DAWN. THEREFORE A FLOOD WARNING WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT. LAT...LON 3706 9835 3721 9835 3721 9809 3706 9809 $$ DARMOFAL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 8:17 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Labette, Neosho | 38 hr |
| Sep 16, 8:17 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Cherokee, Labette | 60 hr |
| Sep 16, 11:37 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | ICT | Allen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 18 more | 10 hr |
| Sep 17, 2:07 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Harper | 6 hr |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.