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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Wichita, KS

August 27, 1989Chase County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 27, 1989, 11:29 PM CDT for Chase County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 27, 1989, 11:29 PM CDT (04:29 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 1989, 3:30 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Chase County, KS

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 114 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 1989-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 958 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 1989-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 115 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
958 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-125 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
840 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
257 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
12.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 27, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno63 min
Aug 27, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey64 min
Aug 28, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTElk55 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1989Every flash flood warning in 1989

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.