Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1986
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 16, 1986, 6:40 AM CDT for Brown County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1986, 6:40 AM CDT (11:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1986, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brown County, KS
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1724 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 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 KTOP 161140 FFWTOP KSC131-013-149-161-117-161530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 640 AM CDT FRI MAY 16 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS...NEMAHA...BROWN...NORTHERN POTTAWATOMIE...NORTHERN RILEY AND MARSHALL AT 635 AM CDT...VERY HEAVY TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING TO MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHEAST KANSAS COUNTIES BORDERING NEBRASKA. VERY HEAVY RAINS IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES HAVE BEEN REPORTED. RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINS WILL LIKELY FLOOD STREAMS AND LOW AREAS. BE CAREFUL DRIVING AND DON/T TRY TO CROSS WATER RUSHING ACROSS ROADS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS ISSUED ONLY WHEN FLASH FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED OR IS EXPECTED SHORTLY. TAKE NECESSARY ACTION NOW. VERY HEAVY RAINS IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES WERE RPORTED TO HAVE FALLEN IN A SHORT TIME AT BAILEYVILLE...AND NEARLY 3 INCHES AT BLUE RAPIDS BETWEEN 4AM AND 6AM CDT....AND HEAVY RAINS WERE CONTINUING. BILLS
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, May 16, 12:49 AM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1250 AM CDT FRI MAY 16 1986 ...HAMILTON..KEARNEY..FINNEY..HODGEMAN AND PAWNEE COUNTIES REMOVED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 177... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 177. AT 1245AM CDT...ALL THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...GENERALLY NORTH OF A TRIBUNE TO RUSSELL LINE. NO THUNcDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED ANYWHERE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE WATCH DOES REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...GENERALLY NORTH OF THE TRIBUNE TO RUSSELL LINE... UNTIL 6AM CDT. BILLS
Special weather statement, May 16, 2:44 AM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 240 AM CDT FRI MAY 16 1986 AT 240 AM CDT...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM 10 MILES NORTH WEST OF LINCOLN TO 15 MILES NORTH OF MINNEAPOLIS IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BELLEVILLE. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS..GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY HAIL AS THEY MOVE EASTNORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WERE NUMEROUS FROM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSSELL EAST TO 15 MILES WEST OF MILTONVALE. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING EASTNORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. ES
Special weather statement, May 16, 3:11 AM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 310 AM CDT FRI MAY 16 1986 ...THUNDERSTORMS HEADED FOR PART OF NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 310 AM CDT...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS TO THE NORTH OF SALINA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED ABOUT MID WAY BETWEEN SALINA AND CONCORDIA...AND ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF CONCORDIA. A SMALL THUNDERSHOWER HAD ALSO DEVELOPED NEAR MANHATTAN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO NORTHERN RILEY AND MARSHALL COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS BY 4AM CDT. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS AS WELL AS POSSIBLY SOME HAIL IF THEY CONTINUE AT THEIR CURRENT INTENSITY. BILLS
Special weather statement, May 16, 3:57 AM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 350 AM CDT FRI MAY 16 1986 AT 350 AM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FROM 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BELOIT EASTNORTHEAST TO NEAR MARYS/ VILLE. HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO OCCURRING IN NORTHWEST KANSAS FROM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PHILLIPSBURG EAST TO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF OS/ BORNE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS..20 TO 30 MPH WI.NDS.. AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. EVEN THOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN RECENTLY REPORTED..PEOPLE IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS. ES
Special weather statement, May 16, 4:41 AM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 440 AM CDT FRI MAY 16 1986 ...THUNDERSTORMS SPREADING INTO NORHEAST KANSAS... AT 430 AM CDT...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR CLAY CENTER ACROSS TUTTLE CREEK RESERVOIR..WHICH IS JUST NORTH OF MANHATTAN...TO JUST SOUTH OF FRANKFORT IN SOUTHEAST MARSHALL COUNTY. OTHER THUNDER- STORMS WERE NEAR WAMEGO AND ST. MARYS DEVELOPING EASTWARD TO JUST NORTH OF TOPEKA. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST TO THE EAST OF CLAY CENTER AND WILL MOVE ACROSS TUTTLE CREEEK RESERVOIR BY 515AM CDT. VERY HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL MAY BE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE TO THE EASTo NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. BILLS
Special weather statement, May 16, 4:53 AM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 450 AM CDT FRI MAY 16 1986 AT 450 AM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE LARGEST STORMS WERE 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA AND 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLAY CENTER. HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST TO 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF CLAY CENTER AND 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SMITH CENTER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE SHOWN LITTLE CHANGE IN INTENSITY DURING THE PAST HOUR AS THEY CONTINUED THEIR EASTNORTHEAST MOVEMENT AT 30 MPH. HOWEVER...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS..GUSTY 20 TO 30 MPH WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL CAN STILL BE EXPECTED. ES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osborne | 57 min |
| May 16, 5:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Smith | 53 min |
| May 16, 5:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 51 min |
| May 16, 6:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley | 58 min |
| May 16, 6:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 58 min |
| May 16, 6:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Riley | 4 hr |
| May 16, 7:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Atchison | 57 min |
| May 16, 8:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 61 min |
| May 16, 8:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay | 32 min |
| May 16, 9:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Riley | 30 min |
| May 16, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud | 57 min |
| May 16, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 53 min |
| May 16, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay | 50 min |
| May 16, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Riley | 45 min |
| May 16, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary | 45 min |
| May 16, 4:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Riley | 37 min |
| May 16, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 55 min |
| May 16, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ellsworth, Saline | 55 min |
| May 16, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay | 57 min |
| May 16, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley | 50 min |
| May 16, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary | 50 min |
| May 16, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | McPherson | 61 min |
| May 16, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Rice | 67 min |
| May 16, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Saline | 60 min |
| May 16, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Riley | 41 min |
| May 16, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | McPherson | 42 min |
| May 16, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 52 min |
| May 16, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson | 42 min |
Nearby
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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.