Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 1993, 12:15 AM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 1993, 12:15 AM CDT (05:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1993, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sedgwick County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 2058 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1768 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 140518 FFWICT KSC173-140800- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1215 AM CDT WED JUL 14 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...SEDGWICK COUNTY AT 1210 AM CDT...RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN PERSISTING OVER MOST OF SEDGWICK COUNTY. RADAR IS ESTIMATING RAINFALL RATES UP TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS. HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY TO CONTINUE ACROSS SEDGWICK COUNTY UNTIL AT LEAST 2 AM. WATER HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED OVER MANY ROADS IN WICHITA. IF YOU LIVE NEAR FLOOD PRONE AREAS...KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON WATER LEVELS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGH GROUND SHOULD WATER LEVELS RISE. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER COVERED ROADS. YOU COULD BECOME STRANDED OR EVEN SWEPT AWAY. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEtN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. HEDGES
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, Jul 13, 7:48 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-140135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 748 PM CDT MON JUL 13 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE IN CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 735 PM CDT NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND HIGH WINDS OF AROUND 60 MILES AN HOUR WERE NORTH OF MCPHERSON...TO SALINA...TO ABILENE. A THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING IN CENTRAL HARVEY 30 MILES NORTH OF WICHITA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE FROM GREAT BEND... TO HAYS...ON NORTHEAST TO BE BETWEEN JUNCTION CITY AND CONCORDIA IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. COVERAGE AND INTENSITY HAS INCREASED SINCE 630 PM CDT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND HIGH WINDS. LFW
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 7:49 PM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-140135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 748 PM CDT MON JUL 13 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE IN CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 735 PM CDT NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND HIGH WINDS OF AROUND 60 MILES AN HOUR WERE NORTH OF MCPHERSON...TO SALINA...TO ABILENE. A THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING IN CENTRAL HARVEY 30 MILES NORTH OF WICHITA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE FROM GREAT BEND... TO HAYS...ON NORTHEAST TO BE BETWEEN JUNCTION CITY AND CONCORDIA IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. COVERDAGE AND INTENSITY HAS INCREASED SINCE 630 PM CDT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND HIGH WINDS. LFW
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 7:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-140135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 755 PM CDT MON JUL 13 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE IN CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 735 PM CDT NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND HIGH WINDS OF AROUND 60 MILES AN HOUR WERE NORTH OF MCPHERSON...TO SALINA...TO ABILENE. THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING IN CENTRAL HARVEY COUNTY 30 MILES NORTH OF WICHITA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE FROM GREAT BEND... TO HAYS...ON NORTHEAST TO BE BETWEEN JUNCTION CITY AND CONCORDIA IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND HIGH WINDS. LFW
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 7:57 PM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-140135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 755 PM CDT MON JUL 13 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE IN CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 735 PM CDT NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND HIGH WINDS OF AROUND 60 MILES AN HOUR WERE NORTH OF MCPHERSON...TO SALINA...TO ABILENE. THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING IN CENTRAL HARVEY COUNTY 30 MILES NORTH OF WICHITA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE FROM GREAT BEND... TO HAYS...ON NORTHEAST TO BE BETWEEN JUNCTION CITY AND CONCORDIA IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOURz. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND HIGH WINDS. LFW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 48 min |
| Jul 13, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 73 min |
| Jul 13, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 61 min |
| Jul 13, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 62 min |
| Jul 13, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 63 min |
| Jul 13, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 60 min |
| Jul 13, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 65 min |
| Jul 13, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 43 min |
| Jul 13, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 63 min |
| Jul 13, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 59 min |
| Jul 14, 12:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Marion | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 12:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Marion | 4 hr |
| Jul 14, 4:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Marion | 4 hr |
| Jul 14, 7:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Marion | 4 hr |
| Jul 14, 11:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey | 5 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.