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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Topeka, KS

August 15, 1990Barton County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1990-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 264 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1990-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCNK 160207
FFWCNK
KSC009-160615-

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

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990

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.