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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Topeka, KS

May 26, 1991McPherson County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 1991, 11:06 AM CDT for McPherson County, Kansas. It was in force for 114 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 1991, 11:06 AM CDT (16:06 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1991, 1:00 PM CDT
In force
114 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County McPherson County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 187 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 12:00Z on 1991-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1991-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 123 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1038 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
237 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 8:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPBarton69 min
May 26, 9:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPEllsworth, Rice58 min
May 26, 9:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMcPherson, Rice56 min
May 26, 10:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMcPherson27 min
May 26, 11:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsborne, Russell13 hr
May 26, 12:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsage, Shawnee44 min
May 26, 12:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Franklin50 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.