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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Goodland, KS

July 21, 1993Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 21, 1993, 5:15 AM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 21, 1993, 5:15 AM CDT (10:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 21, 1993, 8:15 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Rooks County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 183 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1993-07-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1590 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1993-07-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 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
1590 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1317 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.3

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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 21, 2:22 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDRooks3 hr
Jul 21, 8:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDRooks3 hr
Jul 21, 11:22 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDRooks7 hr

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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.