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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Wichita, KS

May 18, 1993Chautauqua County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 18, 1993, 12:01 AM CDT for Chautauqua County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 18, 1993, 12:01 AM CDT (05:01 UTC)
Expired
May 18, 1993, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Chautauqua County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 212 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 00:00Z on 1993-05-18Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1993-05-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
543 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
108 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 Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 17, 7:08 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler67 min
May 17, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WarningICTHarper60 min
May 17, 7:23 PM CDTTornado WarningICTElk52 min
May 17, 7:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley58 min
May 17, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMontgomery64 min
May 17, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner63 min
May 17, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley63 min
May 17, 8:46 PM CDTTornado WarningICTMontgomery44 min
May 17, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLabette61 min
May 17, 9:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCherokee63 min
May 17, 10:01 PM CDTTornado WarningICTLabette, Montgomery29 min
May 17, 10:34 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTMontgomery4 hr
May 18, 12:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTCherokee4 hr
May 18, 2:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTCherokee, Labette4 hr
May 18, 2:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTChautauqua, Montgomery4 hr

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.