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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 1, 1993Atchison County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 1993, 9:53 PM CDT for Atchison County, Missouri. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 1, 1993, 9:53 PM CDT (02:53 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 1993, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Atchison County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 127 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3654 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 619 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 170 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 224 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.9
Supercell composite: 18.8

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The text

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

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

Local storm report, Jul 1, 8:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 8:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 8:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 9:30 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 9:43 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 1, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	67 min
Jul 1, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	42 min
Jul 1, 11:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan	58 min
Jul 2, 12:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	47 min
Jul 2, 12:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clinton	54 min
Jul 2, 1:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	40 min
Jul 2, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	65 min
Jul 2, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	54 min
Jul 2, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	50 min
Jul 2, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry	45 min
Jul 2, 6:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Maries, Miller, Pulaski	115 min
Jul 2, 6:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Camden	115 min
Jul 2, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Leavenworth	60 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.