Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 95, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 1993, 8:35 PM CDT for Cloud County, Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 1993, 8:35 PM CDT (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 1993, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cloud County, KS, Republic County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 3147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1235 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCNK 180137 FFWCNK KSC029-157-180330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 835 PM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CONCORDIA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHERN CLOUD COUNTY...SOUTHERN REPUBLIC COUNTY AT 830 PM CLOUD COUNTY AND REPUBLIC COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED NUEROUS ROADS STILL UNDER WATER. 10 INCHES OF WATER WAS REPORTED TO BE OVER HIGHWAY K148 EAST OF NORWAY. MANY ROADS IN NORTHERN CLOUD AND SOUTHERN REPUBLIC COUNTIES HAVE WATER UP TO THE ROADWAYS AND ARE LIKELY TO BE CLOSED IN THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. 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. BAKER
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 17, 7:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-180115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 725 PM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993 ...HEAVY RAINS WERE CONTINUING ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 705 PM CDT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM ABOUT 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF TOPEKA...NEAR ATCHISON TO ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF TOPEKA NEAR ST MARYS TO NEAR MANHATTAN. STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM ABOUT 35 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA NEAR CIRCLEVILLE TO ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF TOPEKA NEAR EMMETT. RAINFALLS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES WERE POSSIBLE IN A SHORT TIME FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS. VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE ALSO REPORTED AT AROUND 7 PM ABOUT 30 MILES WEST OF HIAWATHA OR TO THE SOUTH OF SENECA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH HAD HAVE SHOWED SOME DECREASE IN COVERAGE SINCE ABOUT 645 PM. IF THE STORMS HOLD TOGETHER THEY WOULD BE ON A LINE FROM NEAR LEAVENWORTH TO ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF TOPEKA NEAR SILVER LAKE BY AROUND 8 PM CDT. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR MARSHALL COUNTY...ABOUT 60 MILES NORTHWEST OF TOPEKA UNTIL 9 PM CDT. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUT DRIVING ACROSS ANY OF THE NORTHERN TIER OF COUNTIES OF NORTHE@AST KANSAS THIS EVENING BE ALERT FOR WATER OVER ROADWAYS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCHES ALSO ARE IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS THROUGH MUCH OF THE EVENING HOURS. FRANTZ
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 7:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 726 PM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 668 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF KANSAS. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...NORTHWEST... GRAHAM ...NORTH CENTRAL... CLAY JEWELL MITCHELL OSBORNE ROOKS SMITH THE FOLLOWING CITIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH... HILL CITYF SMITH CENTER DLR
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 7:40 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-170130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 740 PM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #668 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR OTTAWA COUNTY AND FOR ALL OF CENTRAL KANSAS EXCEPT MCPHERSON COUNTY... ...SMITH...OSBORNE...JEWELL...MITCHELL...CLOUD...REPUBLIC...WASHINGTON AND CLAY COUNTIES...ARE REMOVED FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH... AT 7-- PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A BROAD AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREAT BEND TO ELLSWORTH TO JUNCTION CITY. THE GENERAL AREA OF PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH...WHILE INDIVIDUAL STORMS IN THE AREA WERE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE MAIN THREAT AT THE MOMENT IS HEAVY RAINS THAT HAVE ALREADY CAUSED FLOODING IN PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. PERSONS ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER IS OBSERVED OR TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. BAKER
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 7:41 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-170130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 740 PM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #668 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR OTTAWA COUNTY AND FOR ALL OF CENTRAL KANSAS EXCEPT MCPHERSON COUNTY... ...SMITH...OSBORNE...JEWELL...MITCHELL...CLOUD...REPUBLIC...WASHINGTON AND CLAY COUNTIES...ARE REMOVED FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH... AT 7-- PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A BROAD AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREAT BEND TO ELLSWORTH TO JUNCTION CITY. THE GENERAL AREA OF PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH...WHILE INDIVIDUAL STORMS IN THE AREA WERE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE MAIN THREAT AT THE MOMENT IS HEAVY RAINS THAT HAVE ALREADY CAUSED FLOODING IN PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. PERSONS ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER IS OBSERVED OR TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. BAKER
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 7:49 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 750 PM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 667 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR KANSAS. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWdING COUNTIES... ...NORTHEAST... ATCHISON BROWN DONIPHAN MARSHALL NEMAHA THE FOLLOWING CITIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH... ATCHISON DLR
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 8:03 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-180200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 803 PM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS WERE MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 750 PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM ABOUT 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF TOPEKA...NEAR ATCHISON TO ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA...NEAR HOYT TO THE JUNCTION CITY VICINITY. STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE TO THE NORTH OF VALLEY FALLS AND TO THE WEST OF EFFINGHAM...ABOUT 25 TO 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF TOPEKA. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE JUNCTION CITY VICINITY. THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. CURRENT MOVEMENT WOULD BRING THE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE TOPEKA VICINITY BETWEEN 8 AND 9 PM AND INTO THE PERRY LAKE AREA ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF TOPEKA. CAMPERS IN THE PERRY LAKE AREA SHOULD PREPARE TO SEEK SHELTER. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR NORTHEAST KANSAS OVERNIGHT. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR MARSHALL COUNTY UNTIL 9 PM CDT. PERSONS TRAVELING ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS ESPECIALLY THE NORTHERN BORDERr COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR WATER OVER THE ROADWAYS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR RILEY AND GEARY COUNTIES UNTIL 11 PM CDT. FRANTZ FRANTZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 7:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Clay | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 8:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Jewell | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 10:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 10:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Jewell | 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.