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Flash Flood Warning 114, NWS Topeka, KS

July 21, 1993Osborne County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 21, 1993, 4:27 PM CDT for Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 21, 1993, 4:27 PM CDT (21:27 UTC)
Expired
Jul 21, 1993, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Osborne County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 272 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 12:00Z on 1993-07-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1203 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1993-07-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 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
1203 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.4

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The text

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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 21, 11:38 AM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-212300-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
1135 AM CDT WED JUL 21 1993

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL KANSAS

BARTON        RICE       MCPHERSON     RUSSELL
ELLSWORTH     SALINE     DICKINSON     LINCOLN

AND IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

SMITH     JEWELL     REPUBLIC     WASHINGTON
OSBORNE   MITCHELL   CLOUD        CLAY
OTTAWA

SYNOPSIS:
A WARM FRONT EXTENDING FROM THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE TO SOUTHEAST KANSAS WILL
TRIGGER MORE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT ACROSS THE REGION.  HEAVY RAINFALL
IS ONCE AGAIN EXPECTED ALONG WITH THE POSSIBLITY OF SEVERE STORMS IN THE
WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE REGION.  THEREFORE SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED
IN THE WESTERN COUNTIES TONIGHT.

TA
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 12:11 PM CDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before
KSZ013>016-211815-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1210 PM CDT WED JUL 21 1993

...THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS...

AT 1205 PM CDT...RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE
OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS...WEST OF A SABETHA TO COUNCIL GROVE LINE.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF MANHATTAN AND 18 MILES
NORTHEAST OF MANHATTAN NEAR WESTMORELAND.

THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING ACROSS ONAGA...LILLIS...CORNING
AND SEBETHA BY 100 PM.

DO NOT DRIVE INTO STANDING WATER ON ROADWAYS.  LOCALIZED FLOODING IS
POSSIBLE WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS.

WOYNICK
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 2:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 21, 12:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMcPherson30 min
Jul 21, 12:35 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPMcPherson3 hr
Jul 21, 2:42 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPOsborne, Russell3 hr
Jul 21, 3:03 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPLincoln, Mitchell3 hr
Jul 21, 5:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPLincoln, Saline3 hr
Jul 21, 5:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPMitchell, Osborne3 hr
Jul 21, 5:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPRussell3 hr
Jul 21, 6:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPOttawa3 hr
Jul 21, 9:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPSaline3 hr
Jul 21, 9:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPMitchell3 hr
Jul 21, 9:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPOsborne3 hr
Jul 21, 12:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPOsborne4 hr
Jul 21, 1:19 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPSaline9 hr
Jul 21, 5:06 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPOsage, Shawnee3 hr
Jul 21, 5:06 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPCoffey3 hr
Jul 21, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPAnderson, Franklin47 min
Jul 21, 5:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPJewell, Republic4 hr
Jul 21, 5:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPClay, Dickinson4 hr
Jul 21, 6:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPAnderson106 min
Jul 21, 6:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPDouglas106 min

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.