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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Wichita, KS

July 23, 1992Chase County, Marion County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 23, 1992, 11:56 AM CDT for Chase County, Marion County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 23, 1992, 11:56 AM CDT (16:56 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 1992, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Chase County, KS, Marion County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 128 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 1992-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 614 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 12:00Z on 1992-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 124 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
614 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-107 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
613 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
170 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
3.9

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 23, 6:33 AM CDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-231240-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
633 AM CDT THU JUL 23 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL AND
SOUTHEAST KANSAS...

AT 625 AM CDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME CONTAINING VERY HEAVY
RAIN...CONTINUED TO MOVE THROUGH PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTAINED IN A 25 MILE WIDE BAND EXTENDING FROM
NEAR SALINA...TO JOPLIN MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 20
MILES WEST OF CHANUTE...AND 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF PITTSBURG.  THESE
STORMS WERE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DEADLY
LIGHTNING.

IF DRIVING IN THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING...BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL.  DO
NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER COVERED ROADS.  IF POSSIBLE...REMAIN INDOORS
UNTIL THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PASSED.  VERY FREQUENT LIGHTNING HAS BEEN
OBSERVED WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS...AND LIGHTNING IS A THUNDERSTORMR'S
GREATEST KILLER.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR...AND AREAL COVERAGE
HAD DECREASED DURING THE PAST HOUR.

HEDGES
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 11:39 AM CDT, 17 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-240500-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KANSAS
1140 AM CDT THU JUL 23 1992

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS:

BUTLER        HARPER        MARION        SUMNER
CHASE         HARVEY        RENO
COWLEY        KINGMAN       SEDGWICK

AND IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS:

ALLEN         CHEROKEE      GREENWOOD     NEOSHO
BOURBON       CRAWFORD      LABETTE       WILSON
CHAUTAUQUA    ELK           MONTGOMERY    WOODSON

SYNOPSIS:  A WARM FRONTAL BOUNDAYR EXTENDING ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS HAS
BEEN DEPRESSED SOUTHWARD BY MORNING THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY.  WITH RATHER
STRONG MOIST UNSTABLE AIR FLOWING UP FROM THE SOUTH...NEW THUNDERSTORMS
WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS THROUGH
THE AFTERNOON...AND LIKELY THOUGH THE NIGHT.  SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS
MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS...HOWEVER THE GREATEST THREAT WILL BE FROM HEAVY
RAIN.  THE GROUND IS ALREADY SATURATED IN MANY AREAS...AND LOCALLIZED
FLOODING WILL LIKELY OCCUR IN LOW LYING AREAS FROM ADDITIONAL RAINFALL.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT IN SOUTH
CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

HEDGES

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 10:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion55 min
Jul 23, 7:10 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTCrawford3 hr
Jul 23, 9:06 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTCherokee, Crawford, Labette, Neosho3 hr
Jul 23, 11:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTCrawford4 hr
Jul 23, 12:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTBourbon4 hr
Jul 23, 3:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTChautauqua, Montgomery106 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.