Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 28, 1989, 2:13 AM CDT for Osage County, Shawnee County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 28, 1989, 2:13 AM CDT (07:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 1989, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 958 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 840 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 12.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KTOP 280716
FFWTOP
KSC111-139-177-197-281200-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
213 AM CDT MON AUG 28 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
...LYON...OSAGE...SHAWNEE...WABAUNSEE
THUNDERSTORMS AT 210 AM CDT EXTEND FROM JUST WEST OF TOPEKA TO NEAR
EMPORIA. THESE STORMS ARE DROPPING HEAVY RAIN ON ALREADY RAINSOAKED
GROUND. THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 40 MPH.
MOST FLOODING 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.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, Aug 27, 8:59 PM CDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before
KSZ013>016-280300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 859 PM CDT SUN AUG 27 1989 AT 845 PM CDT NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM 5 MILES NORTH OF WICHITA...TO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF EMPORIA ...TO KANSAS CITY. THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 5 MILES EAST OF JUNCTION CITY...THROUGH MANHATTAN...TO 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF MANHATTAN JUST SOUTH OF ONAGA. OTHER INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE LAWRENCE TO LEAVENWORTH AREA. PERSONS IN NORTHEAST KANSAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. MCNULTY
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 11:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-280525- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1127 PM CDT SUN AUG 27 1989 RAPIDLY MOVING THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS PART OF CENTRAL KANSAS SHORTLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT. AT 1122 PM...RADAR SHOWED A 15 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES EAST OF SALINA TO 40 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF SALINA NEAR MOUND RIDGE. ANOTHER 10 MILE WIDE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 35 MILES EAST OF SALINA NEAR CHAPMAN...TO 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SALINA NEAR HERRINGTON. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS TO 35 MILES AN HOUR...AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. SULLIVAN
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 11:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
KSZ013>016-280530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1135 PM CDT SUN AUG 27 1989 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL KANSAS THE REST OF TONIGHT... AT 1115 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING THROUGH NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE STORMS EXTENDED FROM THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF KANSAS ACROSS TOPEKA TO EMPORIA TO 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EMPORIA. OTHER STORMS CONTINUED ON SOUTHWEST THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS TO THE WEST OF WICHITA. ONE OF THE STRONGEST STORMS...PRODUCING A TORRENTIAL DOWNPOUR...WAS OVER TOPEKA. AN INCH AND A HALF HAD FALLEN IN 30 MINUTES AT BILLARD AIRPORT IN TOPEKA WITH THE HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING AT 1130 PM. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTEAST AT AROUND 35 MILES AN HOUR. HOWEVER...ALTHOUGH THESE MAY MOVE ON OUT OF NORTHEAST KANSAS...WITH STORMS LINED UP BACK INTO NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA...MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY THROUGH THE NIGHT. THE HEAVY RAINS WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY CAUSE FLOODING ON SOME SMALL STREAMS IN EAST CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. PERSONS LIVING NEAR SMALL STREAMS...AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT THE REST OF TONIGHT FOR POSSIBLE FLOODING. PREPARATIONS SHOULD BE MANDE NOW FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF FLOODING. BILLS
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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.