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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Topeka, KS

July 2, 1993Barton County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 2, 1993, 4:38 AM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 2, 1993, 4:38 AM CDT (09:38 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 1993, 8:45 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Barton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 3600 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1413 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 233 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.8
Supercell composite: 16.7

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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

Local storm report, Jul 2, 3:26 AM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 2, 3:59 AM CDT, 39 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 1, 7:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Osborne	25 min
Jul 1, 7:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Osborne	34 min
Jul 1, 7:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Clay	36 min
Jul 1, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Russell	61 min
Jul 1, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Washington	37 min
Jul 1, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jewell, Mitchell	45 min
Jul 1, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud	60 min
Jul 1, 8:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Russell	42 min
Jul 1, 8:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Clay	26 min
Jul 1, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Washington	50 min
Jul 1, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Washington	45 min
Jul 1, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Riley	28 min
Jul 1, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	45 min
Jul 1, 11:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Russell	3 hr
Jul 2, 12:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Barton	2 hr
Jul 2, 12:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Clay	3 hr
Jul 2, 1:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Saline	4 hr
Jul 2, 5:10 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Saline	4 hr
Jul 2, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas	43 min
Jul 2, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Lyon	30 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1993 Every flash flood warning in 1993

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.