Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 76, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 1993, 10:04 AM CDT for Brown County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 1993, 10:04 AM CDT (15:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1993, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brown County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 360 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
- 854 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 953 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOP 131505 FFWTOP KSC013-131900- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1004 AM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST KANSAS ...BROWN COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN IN BROUWN COUNTY THIS MORNING. THIS RAIN WITH ADDITIONAL RAIN FALLING THROUGH THE MORNING WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING ON ALREADY SATURATED OR FLOODED GROUND. REMEMBER DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER OVER ROADWAYS. SEVERAL INCHES OF WATER COULD WASH YOU AND YOUR VEHICLE AWAY! DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ACROSS WATER-COVERED ROADWAYS. THE WATER DEPTH AND CURRENT MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
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 13, 8:26 AM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
KSZ013>016-131430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 825 AM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993 A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAVE DEVELOPED OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM AROUND 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOPEKA IN SOUTHWEST WABAUNSEE COUNTY TO JUST EAST OF HIAWATHA. A FEW STRONG STORMS WERE ALSO AROUND 20 MILES NORTH OF MANHATTAN IN THE NORTHERN REACHES OF TUTTLE CREEK RESERVOIR. THESE THUNDERSTO`RMS WILL CONTINUE SCATTERED OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS THIS MORNING. TOPEKA HIAWATHA AND ATCHISON MIGHT EXPECT SOME BRIEF DOWNPOURS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING THIS MORNING WITH THE STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AROUND 20 MPH. KAYS
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 9:45 AM CDT, 19 minutes before
KSZ013>016-131530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 945 AM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993 SOME THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM AROUND 60 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOPEKA NEAR COUNCIL GROVE RESERVOIR TO THE HIAWATHA AREA. A FEW STRONG STORMS WERE JUST EAST AND SOUTH OF HIAWATHA. SOME OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO THE MARYSVILLE AREA FROM NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS. HIAWATHA AND ATCHISON MIGHT EXPECT SOME BRIEF DOWNPOURS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING THIS MORNING WITH THE STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AROUND 20 MPH. SOME LOCALLIZED FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE FROM RAINS OF AROUND AN INCH NEAR THE NEBRASKA BORDER. KAYS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jewell | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Mitchell | 50 min |
| Jul 13, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 42 min |
| Jul 13, 4:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Washington | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 42 min |
| Jul 13, 4:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Mitchell | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 4:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Cloud, Jewell | 88 min |
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.