Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 1993, 9:47 AM CDT for Lyon County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 1993, 9:47 AM CDT (14:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1993, 12:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lyon County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1401 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 6, 8:21 AM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-061430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 820 AM CDT TUE JUL 6 1993 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS CONTINUE UNTIL 945 AM FOR MCPHERSON COUNTY AND UNTIL 10 AM FOR SOUTHERN SALINE COUNTY...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BARTON COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #601 FOR ALL OF THE CENTRAL KANSAS EXCEPT OTTAWA COUNTY UNTIL 11 AM CDT... AT 815 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERING MOST OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS TO THE EAST OF A LINE FROM MANKATO IN JEWELL COUNTY TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA TO ABILENE TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MCPHERSON. STREET FLOODING HAS SUBSIDED IN GREAT BEND AND RAINFALL HAS ENDED ACROSS BARTON COUNTY SO WATER SHOULD CONTINUE TO RECEED ACROSS THE COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST MCPHERSON COUNTY AND IN CENTRAL WASHINGTON COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF WASHINGTON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. REMEMBER...NEVER ATTEMPT TO ACROSS WATER OVER ROADS...BRIDGES OR DIPS AND NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS A SWOLLEN STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT..R IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER AT ONCE UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA SOURCE FOR FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION... SW
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 8:21 AM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
KSZ006-008-009-011-061420- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 820 AM CDT TUE JUL 6 1993 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 601 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF KANSAS. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...CENTRAL... BARTON DICKINSON ELLIS ELLSWORTH LINCOLN MCPHERSON RICE RUSH RUSSELL SALINE ...SOUTH CENTRAL... EDWARDS KIOWAj PAWNEE PRATT STAFFORD THE FOLLOWING CITIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH... GREAT BEND HAYS MCPHERSON PRATT RUSSELL SALINA BILLS
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 8:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-061430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO CANCEL WATCH IN CENTRAL KANSAS... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 822 AM CDT TUE JUL 6 1993 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS CONTINUE UNTIL 945 AM FOR MCPHERSON COUNTY AND UNTIL 10 AM FOR SOUTHERN SALINE COUNTY...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BARTON COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #601 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR ALL OF CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 815 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERING MOST OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS TO THE EAST OF A LINE FROM MANKATO IN JEWELL COUNTY TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA TO ABILENE TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MCPHERSON. STREET FLOODING HAS SUBSIDED IN GREAT BEND AND RAINFALL HAS ENDED ACROSS BARTON COUNTY SO WATER SHOULD CONTINUE TO RECEED ACROSS THE COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST MCPHERSON COUNTY AND IN CENTRAL WASHINGTON COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF WASHINGTON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. REMEMBER...NEVER ATTEMPT TO ACROSS WATER OVER ROADS...BRIDGES OR DIPS AND NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS A SWOLLEN STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER AT ONCE UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA SOURCE FOR FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION... SW
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 8:24 AM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-061430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO CANCEL WATCH IN CENTRAL KANSAS... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 822 AM CDT TUE JUL 6 1993 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS CONTINUE UNTIL 945 AM FOR MCPHERSON COUNTY AND UNTIL 10 AM FOR SOUTHERN SALINE COUNTY...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BARTON COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #601 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR ALL OF CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 815 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERING MOST OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS TO THE EAST OF A LINE FROM MANKATO IN JEWELL COUNTY TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA TO ABILENE TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MCPHERSON. STREET FLOODING HAS SUBSIDED IN GREAT BEND AND RAINFALL HAS ENDED ACROSS BARTON COUNTY SO WATER SHOULD CONTINUE TO RECEED ACROSS THE COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST MCPHERSON COUNTY AND IN CENTRAL WASHINGTON COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF WASHINGTON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. REMEMBER...NEVER ATTEMPT TO ACROSS WATER OVER ROADS...BRIDGES OR DIPS AND NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS A SWOLLEN STREAjM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER AT ONCE UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA SOURCE FOR FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION... SW
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 9:14 AM CDT, 33 minutes before
KSZ014-061515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 913 AM CDT TUE JUL 6 1993 THERE HAVE BEEN CONFLICTING REPORTS OF A POSSIBLE TORNADO ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EMPORIA AT HARTFORD. SIRENS HAVE SOUNDED AT HARTFORD..BUT THEY MAY BE DUE TO A LIGHTNING HIT AT THE SIREN. A TORNADO HAS NOT BEEN CONFIRMED AT HARTFORD AND RADAR DOES NOT INDICATED A TORNADO POTENTIAL. LYON COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT AND OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AND WEATHER SPOTTER PEOPLE ARE CHECKING ON THE SITUATION. PEOPLE IN THE HARTFORD AREA SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE LOCAL WEATHER. &
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 9:30 AM CDT, 17 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-061530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 929 AM CDT TUE JUL 6 1993 AT 925AM...SHOWERS AND SCATTERED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MOST OF NORTHEAST KANSAS...GENERALLY SOUTH AND EAST OF THE KANSAS TURNPIKE. THE RAIN AREA REACHED FROM HIAWATHA TO ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF MANHATTAN TO WICHITA AND THEN EAST TO THE MISSOURI BORDER. HEAVY RAIN WAS INDICATED BETWEEN EMPORIA AND OTTAWA...ACROSS LYON...COFFEY...ANDERSON AND SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTIES..INCLUDING THE KANSAS TURNPIKE AND I-35. AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 NOON FOR MUCH OF THIS AREA. 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN WERE REPORTED AT EMPORIA AND AT HARRIS IN NORTHERN ANDERSON COUNTY SINCE THE RAIN BEGAIN EARLY THIS MORNING. ALL STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH. PERSONS IN EASTCENTRAL KANSAS...PARTICULARLY BETWEEN EMPORIA AND OTTAWA SHOULD BE ALERT TO LOCALIZED FLOODING PROBLEMS...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR EASTCENTRAL KANSAS TODAY. AKULOW &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 4:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Barton, Rice | 52 min |
| Jul 6, 5:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Barton | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Barton | 46 min |
| Jul 6, 7:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Saline | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 7:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 68 min |
| Jul 6, 8:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Franklin | 44 min |
| Jul 6, 9:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 12:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Anderson | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1993Every 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.