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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Wichita, KS

May 18, 1993Cherokee County, Labette County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 18, 1993, 2:26 AM CDT for Cherokee County, Labette County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 1993, 2:26 AM CDT (07:26 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1993, 6:30 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cherokee County, KS, Labette County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 117 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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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 18, 12:07 AM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 18, 12:07 AM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

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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	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	Chautauqua, Montgomery	4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1993 Every 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.