Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1986
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 16, 1986, 9:13 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1986, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1986, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Pottawatomie 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 2634 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOP 170213 FFWTOP KSC131-005-085-013-087-149-161-117-170700- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 913 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS...NEMAHA...ATCHISON...JACKSON...BROWN...JEFFERSON... POTTAWATOMIE...RILEY AND MARSHALL A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 200 AM SATURDAY MORNING ALONG AND EAST OF THE BIG BLUE RIVER BASIN AND NORTH OF THE KANSAS RIVER. HEAVY RAINS OF FROM 2 TO 3 INCHES OVER WEST PART OF THIS AREA IS WILL SPREAD EASTWARD THROUGH THE MIDDLE PART OF THE NIGHT CAUSING SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOODING. FLASH FLOODING WILL LIKELY RESULT FROM THE HEAVY RAIN. STAY AWAY FROM AREAS SUSCEPTIBLE TO FLOODING LIKE SMALL STREAMS..LOW LYING AREAS AND UNDERPASSES. ALL CITIZENS SUBJECT TO FLOODING SHOULD TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FROM RAPID RISING WATER. SHIDELER
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, 5:29 PM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 528 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1986 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... ...SEVE
Special weather statement, May 16, 7:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 720 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1986 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 179 VALID UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR MUCH OF NORTHCENTAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED WEST% OF A LINE FROM SABETHA TO ABILENE TO HERINGTON. THIS WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 10PM TO THE EAST OF THIS LINE AND WEST OF A LINE FROM LYNDON TO LEAVENWORTH. TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 181 ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHCENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 11PM
Special weather statement, May 16, 7:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 735 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1986 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 179 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. AT 735 PM CDT A LINE OF INTENSE TO8 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF HIAWATHA IN EXTREME NORTHEAST KANSAS TO 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PHILLIPS 0038
Special weather statement, May 16, 8:20 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 815 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PART OF NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 200 AM... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN WABAUNSEE COUNTY AND NORTHWEST SHAWNEE COUNTY UNTIL 830 PM... AT 815 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH WESTERN SHAWNEE COUNTY PRODUCING PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL..AND WINDS OF 40 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE CITY OF TOPEKA UNTIL ABOUT 930 PM. PEOPLE IN TOPEKA AND SURROUNDING AREAS SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE ALERT AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS PASS. MCNULTY
Special weather statement, May 16, 8:52 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 850 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1986 AT 850 PM CDT A NEWLY DEVELOPED THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN GUSTY WINDS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SOME HAIL WAS 7 MILES EAST OF ELLSWORTH IN CENTRAL KANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WAS 10 MILES NORTH OF ABILENE AND WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. OTHER LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS WERE EAST OF A LINE FROM OMAHA NEBRASKA TO CLAY CENTER KANSAS TO GREAT BEND. THE AREA WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH AND HAD SHOWN SOME NEW DEVELOPMENT IN THE WEST PORTION. PHILLIPS 0152
Local storm report, May 16, 9:06 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 900 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1986 ALL TIMES CDT AND AREA IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... 208 PM 1/2 INCH HAIL IN SOUTHERN CLOUD COUNTY. 253 PM 3/4 INCH HAIL 11/2 EAST OF AURORA KANSAS IN CLOUD COUNTY. 314 PM GOLF BALL HAIL 11 MILES WEST OF CLAY CENTER IN CLAY COUNTY. 400 PM TORNADO REPORTED 5 MILES EAST OF CLAY CENTER. 435 PM 3/4 INCH HAIL OVER KANOPOLIS LAKE IN ELLSWORTH COUNTY. STAPLETON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 40 min |
| May 16, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 50 min |
| May 16, 9:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall, Riley | 5 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1986Every flash flood warning in 1986
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.