Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1986
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 1986, 3:35 PM CDT for McPherson County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 1986, 3:35 PM CDT (20:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1986, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County McPherson 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 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 1384 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 691 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 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 062045 COR FFWCNK KSC113-070100- BULLETIN EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 335 PM CDT SUN JUL 6 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF CENTRAL KANSAS...MCPHERSON AT 335 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED STRONG TO INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES SOUTH OF SALINA THROUGH MCPHERSON TO 20 MILES WEST OF HUTCHINSON MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS OVER SATURATED GROUND. RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINS IN THE WARNING AREA WILL LIKELY FLOOD STREAMS AND LOW AREAS. BE CAREFUL DRIVING AND DON/T TRY TO CROSS A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS ISSUED ONLY WHEN FLASH FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED OR IS EXPECTED SHORTLY. TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS NOW. PHILLIPS
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 6, 11:07 AM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1105 AM CDT SUN JUL 6 1986 AT 1105 AM CDT LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS WERE SCATTERED OVER SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA..NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL KANSAS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES WEST OF OMAHA NEBRASKA TO BELLEVILLE KANSAS TO 40 MILES WEST OF HAYS KANSAS. THE SHOWERS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SOME SMALL STREAM AND LOWLAND FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED OVER PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS DURING THE MORNING HOURS AND ALTHOUGH THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DECREASED IN INTENSITY TO SHOWERS PERSONS LIVING ALONG SMALL STREAMS OR LOW LYING AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE FLOODING AS THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY INCREASE AGAIN SBY LATE AFTERNOON. PHILLIPS
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 11:59 AM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1155 AM CDT SUN JUL 6 1986 AT 1155 AM CDT NEWLY DEVELOPED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WERE 5 MILES WEST OF HERINGTON..5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MCPHERSON..5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ABILENE AND 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF LYONS..ALL IN CENTRAL KANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. OTHER LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER A LARGE AREA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM OMAHA NEBRASKA TO BELOIT KANSAS TO 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RUSSELL KANSAS AND WERE ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SMALL STREAM AND LOWLAND FLOODING CONTINUES OVER PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SMALL STREAMS CONTINUE TO RISE IN CENTRAL KANSAS. PERSONS LIVING ALONG OR HAVING INTERESTS ALONG SMALL STREAMS SHOULD TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS AS THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE TO INCREASE DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. > PHILLIPS
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 12:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1250 PM CDT SUN JUL 6 1986 ...THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING OVER CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 1250 PM CDT A NEWLY DEVELOPED 5 MILE WIDE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF HERINGTON TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LYONS IN CENTRAL KANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE LINE WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. OTHER LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER A LARGE AREA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES SOUTH OF OMAHA NEBRASKA TO CONCORDIA KANSAS TO 20 MILES WEST OF LARNED KANSAS. THE AREA WAS DRIFTING SOUTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL SHOWERS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SOME SMALL STREAM AND LOW LAND FLOODING WILL CONTINUE OVER NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS WHILE SMALL STREAM AND LOWLAND FLOODING WILL BE ON THE INCREASE THROUGH CENTRAL KANSAS DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. > PERSONS LIVING NEAR OR WITH INTERESTS ALONG SMALL STREAMS OR FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS. PHILLIPS < NAME
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 1:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 155 PM CDT SUN JUL 6 1986 AT 155 PM CDT AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HERINGTON IN CENTRAL KANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SOME HAIL. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS IN A 5 MILE WIDE LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES EAST OF HERINGTON TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF HUTCHINSON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH AND WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN. OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS CONTINUED SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES SOUTH OF OMAHA NEBRASKA TO LINCOLN KANSAS TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF LARNED KANSAS. THE SHOWERS WERE ALSO MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. SMALL CREEK AND LOW LAND FLOODING WILL BE ON THE INCREASE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON IN MCPHERSON AND RICE COUNTIES OF CENTRAL KANSAS AS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THOSE COUNTIES WHERE THE GROUND IS SATURATED FROM RAINS RECEIVED LAST NIGHT AND THIS MORNING. < PHILLIPS
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 3:04 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 300 PM CDT SUN JUL 6 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH PARTS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS REST OF THE AFTERNOON... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE WATCH INCLUDES THESE COUN TIES: MCPHERSON..MARION..DICKENSON..GEARY..MORRIS AND WAUBAUNSEE. AT 3PMCDT RADAR INDICATES A BAND OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS NEAR 25 MILES WIDE CENTRED ON A LINE FROM NEAR TOPEKA TO CENTRAL MORRIS COUNTY TO NEAR MCPHERSON AND INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EASTNORTHEAST ALONG THE LINE. CONSEQUENTLY..RAIN WILL LIKELY PERSIST IN THE WATCH AREA THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON. ALREADY 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN MCPHERSON SINCE MIDNIGHT WITH ABOUT 2 INCHES OF THAT SINCE AROUND NOON AND STREET FLOODING WAS IN PROGRESS. MOVE TO HIGH GROUND IF FLOODING OCCURS IN YOUR AREA. SCHULTZP
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 3:10 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 305 PM CDT SUN JUL 6 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MCPHERSON AND DICKINSON COUNTIES OF CENTRAL KANSAS FOR REST OF AFTERNOON... AT 305 PM CDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SALINA IN CENTRAL KANSAS TO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. STREET FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN MCPHERSON EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON AND WITH THE ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN BEING PRODUCED BY THE THUNDERSTORMS SOME FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE. PERSONS IN MCPHERSON COUNTY SHOULD BE READY TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND SIF FLOODING OCCURS IN YOUR AREA. SMALL STREAMS WILL CONTINUE TO RISE DURING THE EVENING HOURS AND PERSONS LIVING ALONG OR HAVING INTERESTS NEAR SMALL STREAMS SHOULD TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS. PHILLIPS
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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.