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Flash Flood Warning 138, NWS Topeka, KS

July 25, 1993Shawnee County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 25, 1993, 12:25 AM CDT for Shawnee County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 25, 1993, 12:25 AM CDT (05:25 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 1993, 2:30 AM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 29 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: 5445 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 932 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 258 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 6.0
Supercell composite: 28.7

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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, Jul 24, 10:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 24, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lincoln	65 min
Jul 24, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud	60 min
Jul 24, 8:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Washington	36 min
Jul 24, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lincoln, Ottawa	58 min
Jul 24, 8:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Clay, Washington	43 min
Jul 24, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Saline	50 min
Jul 24, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Riley	41 min
Jul 24, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	60 min
Jul 24, 9:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Saline	3 hr
Jul 24, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Ottawa, Saline	44 min
Jul 24, 9:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Dickinson	68 min
Jul 24, 9:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Ottawa	3 hr
Jul 24, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Saline	40 min
Jul 24, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Riley	39 min
Jul 24, 10:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Dickinson	3 hr
Jul 24, 10:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Dickinson	52 min
Jul 24, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Riley, Wabaunsee	36 min
Jul 24, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Morris	41 min
Jul 24, 11:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Geary, Riley	3 hr
Jul 24, 11:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	28 min
Jul 24, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	49 min
Jul 24, 11:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary	36 min
Jul 24, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Shawnee, Wabaunsee	46 min
Jul 25, 12:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Morris, Wabaunsee	36 min
Jul 25, 1:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Dickinson	2 hr
Jul 25, 1:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Shawnee, Wabaunsee	3 hr
Jul 25, 1:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Geary, Riley	3 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.