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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Wichita, KS

June 30, 2025Butler County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 2025, 12:13 AM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 30, 2025, 12:13 AM CDT (05:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 2025, 4:51 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Flood severity
None

County Butler County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 171 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2025-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 924 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2025-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
924 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-230 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1123 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler45 min
Jun 29, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTElk, Greenwood47 min
Jun 29, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Cowley, Sedgwick, Sumner39 min
Jun 29, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTElk, Greenwood, Montgomery, Wilson49 min
Jun 29, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Cowley, Sedgwick, Sumner47 min
Jun 29, 8:17 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTElk, Greenwood4 hr
Jun 29, 8:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Montgomery, Sumner and 1 more51 min
Jun 29, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatICTChautauqua, Cowley, Montgomery46 min
Jun 29, 9:19 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTButler, Cowley12 hr
Jun 29, 10:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper, Kingman, Sumner58 min
Jun 29, 10:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper52 min
Jun 29, 10:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner46 min
Jun 30, 3:35 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTHarvey, Sedgwick9 hr
Jun 30, 3:40 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTHarper, Kingman6 hr
Jun 30, 4:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell67 min
Jun 30, 4:55 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTButler4 hr
Jun 30, 5:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, McPherson, Rice, Saline38 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.