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Flash Flood Warning 128, NWS Topeka, KS

July 22, 19934 counties in Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 1993, 1:08 AM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 22, 1993, 1:08 AM CDT (06:08 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 1993, 4:15 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Coffey County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 66 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 00:00Z on 1993-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 105 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 00:00Z on 1993-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 198 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
105 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-189 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
943 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
198 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
291 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 21, 7:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPWabaunsee2 hr
Jul 21, 8:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPShawnee87 min
Jul 21, 9:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPDouglas, Jefferson2 hr
Jul 21, 9:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPLyon, Osage, Shawnee110 min
Jul 21, 11:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPFranklin115 min
Jul 21, 11:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPLyon, Osage88 min
Jul 22, 12:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPMarshall, Nemaha2 hr
Jul 22, 1:08 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPAnderson, Franklin3 hr
Jul 22, 1:47 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPMarshall, Nemaha118 min
Jul 22, 1:47 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPBrown118 min
Jul 22, 3:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPAtchison2 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.