Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 83, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 1993, 10:42 PM CDT for Saline County, Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 1993, 10:42 PM CDT (03:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1993, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saline County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 2058 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1768 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCNK 140342 FFWCNK KSC167-169-140545- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1042 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CONCORDIA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHERN RUSSELL COUNTY...SALINE COUNTY AT 1038 PM CDT RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF SALINE COUNTY...AND WERE STILL PRODUCING MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL. THIS AREA IS ALREADY EXPERIENCING FLOODING AT 1030 PM AND THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL ALLOW FLASH FLOODING TO PERSIST THROUGH MIDNIGHT...THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SALINE IS BEING EXTENDED. FLOODING IS STILL BEING REPORTED IN THE FAIRPORT AREA OF NORTHERN RUSSELL COUNTY AS WELL AS MANY COUNTY ROADS IN NORTHERN RUSSELL COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL EXTEND TO THE NORTHWEST FROM RUSSELL TO 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSSELL AND WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL OVER NORTHERN RUSSELL COUNTY THROUGH MIDNIGHT AND MORE FLASH FLOODING... THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN EXTENDED FOR NORTHERN RUSSELL COUNTY. 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. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD 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. WHITMORE
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, 8:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
KSZ013>016-140230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 833 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 830 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NO SEVERE WEATHER OCCURRING IN NORTHEAST KANSAS. HOWEVER SHOWERS AND SCATTERED MODERATE INTENSITY THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST SOUTH OF HIAWATHA TO NEAR HOLTON TO MANHATTAN TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF JUNCTION CITY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTH OF JUCNCTION CITY JUST TO THE NORTHWEST OF WHITE CITY. THESE STORMS WILL CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING. CURRENT MOVEMENT WOULD TAKE THESE STORMS ACROSS COUNCIL GROVE LAKE AND THE CITY OF COUNCIL GROVE BY 915 PM. BOATERS AT COUNCIL GROVE LAKE SHOULD GET OFF THE LAKE UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS APPEARS TO BE BRIEF...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD MOVE INDOORS. ALSO...MOTORISTS ARE CAUTIONED TO NOT DRIVE ACROSS ROADWAYS COVERED BY WATER. THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK AND COULD WASH YOUR CAR OFF THE ROAD AND INTO THE DITCH OR STREAMBED. BILLS
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 9:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-140245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 937 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 1 AM FOR ALL OF CENTRAL KANSAS EXCEPT FOR LINCOLN COUNTY... AT 935 PM RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF CENTRAL NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS TO THE SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM CLAY CENTER TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF CONCORDIA TO 10 MILES WEST SALINA TO NEAR GREAT BEND. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING AS THE AREA MOVES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WAS LOCATED IN SOUTHWEST OSBORNE COUNTY NEAR NATOMA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. IF THREATENING APPROACHES...MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA SOURCE FOR FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION. SW
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 9:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-140245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 937 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 1 AM FOR ALL OF CENTRAL KANSAS EXCEPT FOR LINCOLN COUNTY... AT 935 PM RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF CENTRAL NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS TO THE SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM CLAY CENTER TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF CONCORDIA TO 10 MILES WEST SALINA TO NEAR GREAT BEND. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING AS THE AREA MOVES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WAS LOCATED IN SOUTHWEST OSBORNE COUNTY NEAR NATOMA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. IF THREATENING APPROACHES...MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA SOURCE FOR FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION. SW
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 9:43 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
KSZ011-014-140241- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 941 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 658 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF KANSAS. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...CENTRAL... DICKINSON ELLSWORTH SALINE ...EAST CENTRAL... LYON MORRIS THE FOLLOWING CITIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH... EMPORIA fSALINA + THE THREAT FOR SEVERE STORMS HAS ENDED AS THE MOST INTESNE ACTIVITY HAS MOVED TO THE SOUTH OF THIS AREA. HOWEVER...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE REGION OVERNIGHT. BARLOW
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 10:17 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-140330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1017 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 1 AM FOR ALL OF CENTRAL KANSAS EXCEPT FOR LINCOLN COUNTY...SALINE...ELLSWORTH AND DICKINSON COUNTIES... AT 1015 PM RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS TO THE SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM CLAY CENTER TO SALINA TO GREAT BEND. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTHEAST MCPHERSON COUNTY AND FROM SALINA EAST TO ABILENE AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS AS THEY MOVE TO THE SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WERE LOCATED FROM NEAR SMITH CENTER TO BURR OAK. IF THREATENING APPROACHES...MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA SOURCE FOR FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION. SW
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 10:18 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-140330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1017 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 1 AM FOR ALL OF CENTRAL KANSAS EXCEPT FOR LINCOLN COUNTY...SALINE...ELLSWORTH AND DICKINSON COUNTIES... AT 1015 PM RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS TO THE SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM CLAY CENTER TO SALINA TO GREAT BEND. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTHEAST MCPHERSON COUNTY AND FROM SALINA EAST TO ABILENE AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS AS THEY MOVE TO THE SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WERE LOCATED FROM NEAR SMITH CENTER TO BURR OAK. IF THREATENING APPROACHES...MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA SOURCE FOR FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION. SW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Saline | 48 min |
| Jul 13, 7:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Russell | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 7:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Saline | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | McPherson | 40 min |
| Jul 13, 8:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | McPherson | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 10:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Russell | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 11:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | McPherson, Rice | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 12:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 1:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | McPherson | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 5:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | McPherson | 3 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.