Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 12, 1993, 7:42 PM CDT for Saline County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 1993, 7:42 PM CDT (00:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 1993, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saline County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1365 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 965 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOP 130044 FFWCNK KSC169-130445- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS ISSUED BY TOPEKA KS 742 PM CDT WED MAY 12 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHEASTERN SALINE COUNTY THE SMOKY HILL RIVER AT NEW CAMBRIA HAS REACHED 30.57 FEET AND IS BEGINNING TO FLOOD THE EAST SIDE OF TOWN. THE RIVER IS NEAR CREST AT THIS TIME AND SHOULD BEGIN TO FALL AFTER MIDNIGHT. THE SMOKY HILL RIVER ALSO IS FLOODING THE SOLOMON ROAD...JUST SOUTH OF SOLOMON. THE ROAD IS CLOSED BY WATER AT THIS TIME. MOST FLOODING DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES... DIPS... OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. WAVRIN
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, May 12, 1:42 PM CDT, 6 hours before
KSZ013-014-015-016-122100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ...CORRECTED WORDING... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 143 PM CDT WED MAY 12 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED NORTH OF THE KANSAS RIVER... AT 125 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE AROUND 10 MILES NORTH OF MANHATTAN NEAR TUTTLE CREEK LAKE. SHOWERS WERE OVER MUCH OF NORTHEAST KANSAS AND OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED NORTH OF THE KANSAS RIVER. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH^WEST AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. AND THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE JUNCTION CITY AND FORT RILEY AREA BY 2 PM. HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND MAYBE EVEN SOME HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. MG
Special weather statement, May 12, 2:31 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-122030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 227 PM CDT WED MAY 12 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WEAKEN ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 220 PM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONFINED MAINLY SOUTH OF THE KANSAS RIVER BUT ONE THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF MANHATTAN. THE RAIN CONTINUES TO MOVE TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 30 MPH AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE IN THE MANHATTAN AND FORT RILEY AREA THROUGH 3 PM. SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE IN THE BURLINGTON TO OTTAWA AND GARNETT AREA THROUGH 330 PM. CLEARING SKIES WILL MOVE INTO THE COUNTIES BORDER NEBRASKA BY 330 PM. LAPLANTE
Local storm report, May 12, 2:35 PM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...ITEMS OMITTED IN PREVIOUS REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 235 PM CDT WED MAY 12 1993 ADDITIONAL STORM REPORTS FOR FRIDAY MAY 7 1993...ALL TIMES CDT 4:50PM...3/4 INCH HAIL 7S & 9W OF RUSSELL.................RUSSELL COUNTY 6:31PM...TORNADO JUST W OF SYLVAN GROVE...................LINCOLN COUNTY .END
Local storm report, May 12, 2:35 PM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...ITEMS OMITTED IN PREVIOUS REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 235 PM CDT WED MAY 12 1993 ADDITIONAL STORM REPORTS FOR FRIDAY MAY 7 1993...ALL TIMES CDT 4:50PM...3/4 INCH HAIL 7S & 9W OF RUSSELL.................RUSSELL COUNTY 6:31PM...TORNADO JUST W OF SYLVAN GROVE...................LINCOLN COUNTY .END
Special weather statement, May 12, 4:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-122210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 412 PM CDT WED MAY 12 1993 ...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHWARD ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 405 PM RADAR INDICATED A SCATTERED AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS GENERALLTO THE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF SALINA WEST TO 20 MILES NORTH OF HAYS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 10 MLES SOUTHWEST OF SALINA...20 MILES WEST OF SALINA NEAR WESTFALL AND 40 MILES EAST OF HAYS NEAR SYLVAN GROVE. BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...SOME GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECED WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS AS ALL OF THE PRECIPITATION MOVES TO THE SOUTH-SOUTHWEST AT 25 MPH. THE GROUND OVER CENTRAL KANSAS REMAINS SATURATED AND ONLY BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL COULD LEAD TO QUICK RUNOFF AND PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE OR WALK ACROSS WATER OVER THE ROAD...DIPS OR LOW SPOTS. SW
Special weather statement, May 12, 4:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-122210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 412 PM CDT WED MAY 12 1993 ...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHWARD ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 405 PM RADAR INDICATED A SCATTERED AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS GENERALLTO THE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF SALINA WEST TO 20 MILES NORTH OF HAYS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 10 MLES SOUTHWEST OF SALINA...20 MILES WEST OF SALINA NEAR WESTFALL AND 40 MILES EAST OF HAYS NEAR SYLVAN GROVE. BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...SOME GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECED WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS AS ALL OF THE PRECIPITATION MOVES TO THE SOUTH-SOUTHWEST AT 25 MPH. THE GROUND OVER CENTRAL KANSAS REMAINS SATURATED AND ONLY BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL COULD LEAD TO QUICK RUNOFF AND PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE OR WALK ACROSS WATER OVER THE ROAD...DIPS OR LOW SPOTS. SW
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.