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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Sep 8, 1989, 6:33 PM CDT for Douglas County, Osage County, Shawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 8, 1989, 6:33 PM CDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 1989, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Douglas County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 16 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
- 1298 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -161 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1060 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Sep 8, 1:03 PM CDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before
KSZ013-015-081900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 102 PM CDT FRI SEP 8 1989 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... AT 1255 PM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG A LINE FROM JUST SOUTH OF KANSAS CITY TO JUST NORTH OF EMPORIA AND MOVING NORTHEAST ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS. THESES SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE GENERALLY LIGHT IN INTENSITY BUT SOME COULD PUT DOWN BRIEF HEAVY RAINS. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE MOST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL BE MOVING OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS THAT RECIEVED RAINS THIS MORNING AND LAST NIGHT. THE RAINS OF LAST NIGHT AND THIS MORING HAVE SATURATED THE GROUND AND IN SOME CASES BROUGH STREAMS TO NEAR FLOOD STAGE...ANY ADDITIONAL SIGNIFICANT RAINS COULD PRODUCE FLOODING. PERSONS IN NORTHEAST KANSAS IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS SHOULD FLOODING BE REPORTED OR FORECAST. CRANDALL
Special weather statement, Sep 8, 3:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-082200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 355 PM CDT FRI SEP 8 1989 THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED RAPIDLY OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. AT 355 PM THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND PERHAPS SOME HAIL WERE ON A LINE FROM 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA NEAR MANKATO TO 35 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA OR 10 SOUTH OF BELOIT TO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HAYS OR 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RUSSELL. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY UNSTABLE AND MOIST AND STORMS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE TO INCREASE IN STRENGTH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH COVERS NEA RLY ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM THIS EVENING. PERSONS SHOULD STAY ALERT AND BE AWARE OF YOUR LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS. SEVERE WEATHER IS A POSSIBILITY ALONG WITH HEAVY RAINS CAUSING FLASH FLOODING. ADAMS
Special weather statement, Sep 8, 4:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-082245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 435 PM CDT FRI SEP 8 1989 AT 435 PM THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND PROBABLY SOME HAIL WERE SCATTERED FROM 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA IN THE MANKATO AREA TO 20 MILES SOUTH/ WEST OF CONCORDIA. ANOTHER AREA OF STORMS WITH ABOUT THE SAME TYPE OF WEATHER WERE LOCATED 25 MILES EAST OF HAYS IN THE RUSSELL AREA. ANOTHER STORM WAS MOVING INTO THE GREAT BEND AREA. ALL OF THESE STORMS WERE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SEVERE WEATHER AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PERSONS IN ADVANCE OF THESE STORMS STAY ALERT AND TAKE PRECAUTIONS IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH COVERS NEARLY ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL KANSAS DURING THE EVENING HOURS. HEAVY RAINS FALLING ON ALREADY SATURATED GROUND WILL GIVE A LOT OF RUNOFF WITHIN A FEW MINUTES. SO PER,SONS LIVING IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS AND ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS STAY ALERT. ADAMS
Special weather statement, Sep 8, 5:56 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Sep 8, 6:02 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-DDHHMM- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 6 PM CDT FRI SEP 8 1989 AT 6 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...DEADLY LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL WERE 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF SALINA NEAR WESTFALL AND 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF SALINA NEAR SYLVAN GROVE AND A 10 MILE WIDE AREA OF STORMS WAS FROM 5 MILES EAST OF SALINA NORTHEAST TO CLAY CENTER OR 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CONCORDIA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL FLOOD ROADWAYS IN A SHORT TIME...IF YOU ARE TRAVELING THIS EVENING AND DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. ALSO A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT. SCHNEIDER
Special weather statement, Sep 8, 6:04 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 7:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 3:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jewell | 29 min |
| Sep 8, 4:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Osage, Shawnee | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 47 min |
| Sep 8, 6:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 4 hr |
| Sep 8, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 62 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1989Every flash flood warning in 1989
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.