Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Wichita, KS
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.
- 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
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 17, 10:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 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 |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993
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.