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Flash Flood Warning 154, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Sep 21, 1993, 5:43 PM CDT for Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 21, 1993, 5:43 PM CDT (22:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 1993, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Miami County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 85 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1292 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 212244 FFWMCI KSC121-220045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 543 PM CDT TUE SEP 21 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...MIAMI COUNTY AT 543 PM...SEVERE STORMS NEAR HILLSDALE WERE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL THAT WILL FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN LESS THAN AN HOUR...AND AN INCH OR MORE OF ADDITIONAL RAIN IS LIKELY WITH THESE SLOW MOVING STORMS. IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVY RAINFALL...THESE STORMS PRODUCED 70 MPH AND GOLFBALL AT HILLSDALE. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. RUNNELS &
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, Sep 21, 1:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before
MOZ004-005-008-009-KS016-211930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 145 PM CDT SUN SEP 19 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN AND NORTHEASTERN KANSAS AND WESTCENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI...INCLUDING THE KANSAS CITY AND ST JOSEPH AREAS...UNTIL 700 PM THIS EVENING... AT 240 PM...A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME VERY STRONG... WERE IN NORTHEAST KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN AN AREA...25 MILES WIDE...AND EXTENDED FROM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF TOPEKA TO EAST OF LINCOLN NEBRASKA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE TO THE NORTHWEST OF TOPEKA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth | 59 min |
| Sep 21, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 25 min |
| Sep 21, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson | 45 min |
| Sep 21, 5:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth | 118 min |
| Sep 21, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 44 min |
| Sep 21, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 46 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993
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.