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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Goodland, KS

July 17, 1993Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 1993, 4:56 PM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 17, 1993, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 1993, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Rooks County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 320 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 1993-07-17Temperature 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 1993-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1303 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
8 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 Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 17, 4:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRooks63 min
Jul 17, 4:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley68 min
Jul 17, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita55 min
Jul 17, 6:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDWichita3 hr
Jul 17, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Logan67 min

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.