Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 17, 1993, 10:34 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 1993, 10:34 PM CDT (03:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1993, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 880 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 776 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 318 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 349 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
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
Special weather statement, May 17, 4:38 PM CDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-172245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 438 PM CDT MON MAY 17 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH # 263 CONTINUES FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 430 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS BEGINNING TO ENTER INTO SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE STORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES NORTH OF PRATT. THIS STORM WILL ENTER INTO WESTERN RENO COUNTY...30 MILES WEST OF HUTCHINSON NEAR THE TOWNS OF SYLVIA AND TURON BY 500 PM. IF TREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE TO A REINFORCED SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS NORTH OF A LINE FROM RUSSELL TO MANHATTAN. IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS... SHOWERS WERE SCATTERED AROUND COFFEYVILLE. LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. AREAL COVERAGE AND INTENSITY HAVE INCREASED SINCE 330 PM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. NOONAN
Special weather statement, May 17, 4:39 PM CDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-172245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 438 PM CDT MON MAY 17 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH # 263 CONTINUES FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 430 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS BEGINNING TO ENTER INTO SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE STORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES NORTH OF PRATT. THIS STORM WILL ENTER INTO WESTERN RENO COUNTY...30 MILES WEST OF HUTCHINSON NEAR THE TOWNS OF SYLVIA AND TURON BY 500 PM. IF TREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE TO A REINFORCED SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS NORTH OF A LINE FROM RUSSELL TO MANHATTAN. IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS... SHOWERS WERE SCATTERED AROUND COFFEYVILLE. LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. AREAL COVERAGE AND INTENSITY HAVE INCREASED SINCE 330 PM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. NOONAN
Special weather statement, May 17, 4:43 PM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-172245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTION TO HEADLINE. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 438 PM CDT MON MAY 17 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH # 263 CONTINUES FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 430 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS BEGINNING TO ENTER INTO SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE STORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES NORTH OF PRATT. THIS STORM WILL ENTER INTO WESTERN RENO COUNTY...30 MILES WEST OF HUTCHINSON NEAR THE TOWNS OF SYLVIA AND TURON BY 500 PM. IF TREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE TO A REINFORCED SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS NORTH OF A LINE FROM RUSSELL TO MANHATTAN. IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS... SHOWERS WERE SCATTERED AROUND COFFEYVILLE. LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE SHOWERS. AREAL COVERAGE AND INTENSITY HAVE INCREASED SINCE 330 PM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. NOONAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 67 min |
| May 17, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper | 60 min |
| May 17, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Elk | 52 min |
| May 17, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 58 min |
| May 17, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 64 min |
| May 17, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 63 min |
| May 17, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 63 min |
| May 17, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 44 min |
| May 17, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 61 min |
| May 17, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cherokee | 63 min |
| May 17, 10:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 29 min |
| May 18, 12:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 4 hr |
| May 18, 12:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Cherokee | 4 hr |
| May 18, 2:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Cherokee, Labette | 4 hr |
| May 18, 2:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Montgomery | 4 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.