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Flash Flood Warning 87, NWS Topeka, KS

July 14, 1993McPherson County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 1993, 1:56 AM CDT for McPherson County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 14, 1993, 1:56 AM CDT (06:56 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 1993, 5:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

County McPherson County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 209 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: 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

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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

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 11:14 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before

KSZ007-008-010-011-140515-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
1114 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL
KANSAS UNTIL 1 AM CDT...HAS BEEN CANCELLED...
...A FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES THROUGH THE NIGHT FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AND
NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 1112 PM RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE
SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS TO THE SOUTH
OF A LINE FROM CLAY CENTER TO MINNEAPOLIS TO STOCKTON AND WAS MOVING TO
THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES..MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY
UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR
FURTHER STATEMENTS AND INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

SW

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 11:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

KSZ007-008-010-011-140515-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
1114 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL
KANSAS UNTIL 1 AM CDT...HAS BEEN CANCELLED...
...A FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES THROUGH THE NIGHT FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AND
NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 1112 PM RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE
SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS TO THE SOUTH
OF A LINE FROM CLAY CENTER TO MINNEAPOLIS TO STOCKTON AND WAS MOVING TO
THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES..MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY
UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR
FURTHER STATEMENTS AND INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

SW

Special weather statement, Jul 14, 12:21 AM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 14, 1:03 AM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 14, 1:09 AM CDT, 47 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 14, 1:10 AM CDT, 46 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 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	Saline	2 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, 5:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	McPherson	3 hr

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.