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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Wichita, KS

May 26, 1990Bourbon County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 1990, 1:51 AM CDT for Bourbon County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 1990, 1:51 AM CDT (06:51 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1990, 6:00 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Bourbon 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

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 141 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1990-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3283 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1990-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 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
3283 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1000 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.6

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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
May 25, 7:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTAllen4 hr
May 25, 9:27 PM CDTTornado WarningICTHarper, Kingman48 min
May 25, 10:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno69 min
May 25, 10:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTNeosho, Wilson3 hr
May 26, 1:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTNeosho, Wilson2 hr
May 26, 1:51 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTAllen, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson4 hr
May 26, 1:51 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTLabette4 hr
May 26, 7:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood58 min
May 26, 5:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTBourbon3 hr

Nearby

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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.