Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Mar 30, 1993, 10:50 PM CST for Marshall County, Nemaha County, Kansas. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 1993, 10:50 PM CST (04:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 1993, 9:00 AM CST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Marshall County, KS, Nemaha County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 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.
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, Mar 30, 7:07 PM CST, 3 hours 43 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-310200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 705 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS DIMINISH ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 700 PM A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED NORTH OF THE KANSAS RIVER AND SOUTH OF TOPEKA TO EMPORIA AND GARNETT. THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 8 MILES NORTH OF EMPORIA... NEAR LAWRENCE AND FROM VALLEY FALLS TO WETMORE. THE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 20 MPH. SHOWERS WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE NORTH OF THE KANSAS RIVER AND FROM BURLINGTON TO LAWRENCE THROUGH 8 PM. HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. LAPLANTE
Local storm report, Mar 30, 7:44 PM CST, 3 hours 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
743 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993
PRELIMINARY SEVERE STORM REPORTS FOR TUE EVENING MAR 30 1993.
COUNTY LOCATION TIME-CST REPORT
COFFEY LEBO 1549 GOLF BALL HAIL
OSAGE 5 N OF LEBO 1609 DIME HAIL
OSAGE MELVERN LAKE 1622 GOLF BALL HAIL
OSAGE LYNDON 1645 DIME HAIL
OSAGE OVERBROOK 1700 DIME HAIL
DOUGLAS PLEASANT GROVE 1735 60 MPH WIND
DOUGLAS ZARKO 1745 GOLF BALL HAIL
& 65 MPH WIND
LAPLANTESpecial weather statement, Mar 30, 8:06 PM CST, 2 hours 44 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-310300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 805 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DIMINISH ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 800 PM A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS WITH A FEW WEAK THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM THE KANSAS RIVER TO THE NEBRASKA BORDER. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MAINLY IN ATCHISON COUNTY. SHOWERS ALSO EXTENDED FROM THE TOPEKA AND LAWRENCE AREA SOUTH TO BURLINGTON. THE RAIN WAS MOVING SLOWLY NORTH AT 15 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE NORTH OF THE KANSAS RIVER THROUGH 10 PM. MORE SHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING IN THE JUNCTION CITY AREA. SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE FROM THE LAWRENCE AND TOPEKA AREA SOUTH TO OTTAWA AND THE MELVERN RESERVOIR THROUGH 930 PM. LAPLANTE
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 9:11 PM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-310415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 910 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 ...RAIN CONTINUES OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 900 PM RAIN COVERED MOST OF NORTHEAST K^ANSAS. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE EMBEDDED IN THE RAIN. THE AREA WAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY. PERIODS OF RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS OVERNIGHT. LOW TEMPERATURES WILL FALL INTO THE LOW 40S. A NORTHWEST WIND OF RWC
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 9:14 PM CST, 1 hour 36 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-310415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 914 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 ...RAIN CONTINUES OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 900 PM RAIN COVERED MOST OF NORTHEAST KANSAS. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE EMBEDDED IN THE RAIN. THE AREA WAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY. PERIODS OF RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS OVERNIGHT. LOW TEMPERATURES WILL FALL INTO THE LOW 40S. A NORTHWEST WIND OF 10 TO 20 MPH I`S EXPECTED. RWC
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 10:21 PM CST, 29 minutes before
KSZ013>016-310520- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1020 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 ...MODERATE RAINS WERE CAUSING SOME LOCAL LOW LAND FLOODING OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS... STEADY RAINS CONTINUED OVER THAT PART OF NORTHEAST KANAS MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF THE KANSAS RIVER. MODERATE RAINS WERE OCCURRING OVER THE NORTHERN TIER OF COUNTIES...MARSHALL...NEMAHA AND BROWN ABOUT 60 MILES TO THE NORTH OF TOPEKA. SOME FLOODING WAS OCCURRING IN LOW LYING AREAS OVER NEMAHA COUNTY. RAINS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVERNIGHT WITH SOME THUNDERSTORMS ALSO STILL POSSIBLE. PERSONS HAVING TO TRAVEL OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS OVERNIGHT SHOULD BE ALERT TO WATER FLOWING OVER ROADWAYS AND SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. FRANTZ
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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.