Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 15, 1990, 12:38 PM CDT for Franklin County, Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1990, 12:38 PM CDT (17:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1990, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 389 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 8.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1238 PM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
...FRANKLIN
THUNDERSTORMS THAT HAVE OCCURRED OVERNIGHT AND DURING THE MORNING
HOURS HAVE SATURATED THE GROUND IN FRANKLIN COUNTY AND CAUSED SMALL
CREEKS TO RISE TO BANKFUL AND CAUSE FLOODING SECONDARY ROADS.
ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL OCCUR OVER FRANKLIN COUNTY THROUGH MID AFTERNOON.
THIS WILL AGGRAVATE THE SITUATION.
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.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ACROSS WATER-COVERED ROADWAYS. THE
WATER DEPTH AND CURRENT MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.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, May 15, 9:11 AM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-151500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 910 AM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990 A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR REPUBLIC..NORTHERN CLOUD..NORTHERN CLAY AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES OF NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL NOON CDT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINES FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 10 AM CDT. AT 910 AM CDT ALL THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ENDED ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRA\L KANSAS. THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS NORTH EAST KANSAS. FLOODING CONTINUES IN SOUTHERN REPUBLIC COUNTY WITH SOME
Special weather statement, May 15, 9:14 AM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-151500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 910 AM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990 A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR REPUBLIC..NORTHERN CLOUD..NORTHERN CLAY AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES OF NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL NOON CDT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINES FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 10 AM CDT. AT 910 AM CDT ALL THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ENDED ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS. THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS NORTH EAST KANSAS. FLOODING CONTINUES IN SOUTHERN REPUBLIC COUNTY WITH SOME MINOR FLOODING ACROSS NORTHERN CLOUD COUNTY. SOME FLOODING CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED IN WASHINGTON AND NORTH CLAY COUNTlIES. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS SCHNEIDER
Special weather statement, May 15, 9:21 AM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
KSZALL-151500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 920 AM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 234 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF KANSAS. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...NORTHWEST... DECATUR GRAHAM NORTON RAWLINS SHERIDAN THOMAS ...WEST CENTRAL... GOVE LANE LOGAN NESS SCOTT TREGO WICHITA ...CENTRAL... ELLIS RUSH SOUTH CENTRAL... PAWNEE THE FOLLOWING CITIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH... HAYS HILL CITY SCOTT CITY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 234 REMAINS IN EFFECT OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL KANSAS AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 235 CONTINUES FOR ALL OF EASTERN KANSAS UNTIL 10AM. THESE TWO WATCHES WILL LIKELY BE EXTENDED SOON. SCHURR
Special weather statement, May 15, 10:03 AM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-151500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1001 AM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHERN CLOUD...NORTHERN CLAY... WASHINGTON AND REPUBLIC IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ARE CANCELLED... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED OUT OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING HAS ENDED. MINOR RUNOFF AND STANDING WATER IN LOW LYING AREA WLLL BE A PROBLEM HOWEVER THROUGH MIDDAY. MP
Special weather statement, May 15, 11:04 AM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-151700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1103 AM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 236 IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THIS AFTERNOON... AT 11 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED ONLY A FEW LIGHT SHOWERS IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS 40 MILES WEST OF CONCORDIA IN THE GLEN ELDER/LAKE WACONDA AREA. IN CENTRAL KANSAS THUNDERSTORMS WERE ON THE INCREASE 30 MILES EAST OF SALINA OR 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ABILENE. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO LOCATED 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HUTCHINSON. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PETERSEN
Special weather statement, May 15, 11:58 AM CDT, 40 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-151800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1156 AM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 236 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS EAST OF A LINE FROM ANTHONY TO HUTCHINSON TO BELOIT AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM BELOIT TO CONCORDIA TO LEAVENWORTH. IN ADDITIONA A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT MIDDAY RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SHOWERS FROM 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SALINA TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF SALINA NEAR MCPHERSON TO 25 MILES SOUTH/ WEST OF HUTCHINSON. THE LINE OF SHOWERS WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. MUCH STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN dEASTERN AND SOUTHERN KANSAS IN A 60 MILE WIDE AREA THAT EXTENED FROM JUST EAST OF TOPEKA TO WICHITA. THERE WERE NO SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. MP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 12:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 53 min |
| May 15, 12:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 58 min |
| May 15, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Barton, Russell | 46 min |
| May 15, 4:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Rice | 34 min |
| May 15, 4:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | McPherson | 43 min |
| May 15, 7:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Osage | 3 hr |
| May 15, 7:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Lyon | 119 min |
| May 15, 7:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas | 99 min |
| May 15, 8:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Washington | 4 hr |
| May 15, 8:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Republic | 4 hr |
| May 15, 8:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha, Pottawatomie | 39 min |
| May 15, 12:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas, Osage | 3 hr |
| May 15, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 34 min |
| May 15, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson | 41 min |
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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.