Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 15, 1990, 9:07 PM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 15, 1990, 9:07 PM CDT (02:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1990, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barton 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 264 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2229 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
907 PM CDT WED AUG 15 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
BARTON
AT 900PM CDT RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS
5 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREAT BEND MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20
MPH. THESE STORMS ARE PASSING OVER ALREADY SATURATED GROUND WITH
STANDING WATER IN SOME LOW LYING AREAS. THE POLICE DEPT.
REPORTED WALNUT CREEK AT BANKFULL.
RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINS IN THE WARNED AREA WILL LIKELY FLOOD
STREAMS AND LOW AREAS. BE CAREFUL DRIVING AND DON/T TRY TO CROSS
WATER RUSHING OVER ROADS AND STREETS.
FLASH FLOODING WILL LIKELY RESULT FROM THE HEAVY RAIN THAT HAS
FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA. STAY AWAY FROM AREAS SUSCEPTIBLE
TO FLOODING LIKE SMALL STREAMS..LOW LYING AREAS AND UNDERPASSES.
GO TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.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 15, 8:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-160200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 8XXPM CDT WED AUG 15 1990 AT 8 PM RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREAT BEND NEAR OTIS. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL BE IN THE GALATIA AREA BY 830 PM. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM. PACKETT
Special weather statement, Aug 15, 8:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-160200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS...UPDATED 802 PM CDT WED AUG 15 1990 AT 8 PM RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREAT BEND NEAR OTIS. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL BE IN THE GALATIA AREA BY 830 PM. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM. PACKETT
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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.