Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 16, 1991, 10:48 PM CDT for Marshall County, Nemaha County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1991, 10:48 PM CDT (03:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1991, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Marshall County, KS, Nemaha County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
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, May 16, 8:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-170200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 800 PM CDT THU MAY 16 1991 AT 755 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ..GUSTY WINDS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..AND POSSIBLE HAIL WERE 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF SALINA NEAR MINNEAPOLIS AND 20 MILES WEST OF CONCORDIA OR JUST EAST OF BELOIT. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARYSVILLE TO SALINA TO 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GREAT BEND. THE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTH AT 25 MPH WHILE THE AREA WAS MOVING SLOWLY EAST. REMEMBER A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS UN#TIL 9 PM CDT. LLS
Special weather statement, May 16, 8:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-170200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 802 PM CDT THU MAY 16 1991 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR RILEY AND MARSHALL COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS HAS NOW EXPIRED. STORMS IN THESE COUNTIES HAVE ALSO WEAKENED AND ARE NOT NOW EXPECTED TO PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER. HOWEVER LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS THAT COULD CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING OR POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IS LIKELY. AT 8PM CDT...ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS TAKING AIM ON THE EMPORIA AND SOUTHERN LYON COUNTY AREA. THIS STORM WAS ABOUT 30 TO 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EMPORIA ACROSS NORTHERN BUTLER COUNTY NEAR THE CITY OF CASSODY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND SHOULD GET INTO THE EMPORIA AND SOUTHERN LYON COUNTY AREA BY ABOUT 9PM. TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM IN THE WICHITA AND EL DORADO AREA. PERSONS IN LYON COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT TO THIS SEVERE STORM AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM. A TORNADO WATCH AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATFH CONTINUE UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST KANSAS. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION...ALL RESIDENTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS SHOULD STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADI&O AND TV FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION. AKULOW
Special weather statement, May 16, 8:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
KSZ001-009-012-170200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 810 PM CDT THU MAY 16 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH 342 EXPIRED AT 8 PM AND WILL NOT BE REISSUED... TORNADO WATCH 342...WHICH COVERED MOST OF WESTERN KANSAS...EXPIRED AT 8 PM CDT AND WILL NOT BE REISSUED. AS OF 8 PM CDT...THAT PART OF KANSAS WEST AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM SMITH CENTER THROUGH RUSSELL...GREAT BEND... HUTCHINSON TO WICHITA TO THE OKLAHOMA BORDER SOUTH OF WIDCHITA...HAS BEEN CLEARED FROM ALL SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OR TORNADO WATCHES. EAST OF THAT LINE...TORNADO AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES CONTINUE. BILLS
Special weather statement, May 16, 8:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-170215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 809 PM CDT THU MAY 16 1991 AT 805 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A 10 MILE WIDE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES WEST OF SALINA TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH..PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL..VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGTNING HAVE BEEN REPORTED FROM THIS LINE OF STORMS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH AND THE LINE WAS MOVING EASMT AT 10 MPH. THE LINE OF STORMS WILL EXTENDED FROM JUST EAST OF SALINA TO NEAR BELLEVILLE BY 825 PM CDT. REMEMBER A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR LAA OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 9 PM CDT. LLS
Special weather statement, May 16, 8:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-170215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 817 PM CDT THU MAY 16 1991 TORNADO AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES COVER ALL OF NORTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT. AT 815PM VERY STRONG STORMS WERE ABOUT 20 TO 30 MILES NORTH OF MANHATTAN NEAR FRANKFORT AND THE NORTHERN PARTS OF TUTTLE CREEK LAKE. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EMPORIA. ALL STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH AND ARE CAPABLE OF LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINS... STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND EVEN A TORNADO. PERSONS IN SOUTHERN LYON COUNTY...THE EMPORIA AREA...AND IN MARSHALL COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT TO THESE STRONG STORMS. AKULOW s
Special weather statement, May 16, 10:01 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay | 31 min |
| May 16, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Riley | 53 min |
| May 16, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 28 min |
| May 16, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 30 min |
| May 16, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 35 min |
| May 16, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Riley | 45 min |
| May 16, 9:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Coffey | 35 min |
| May 16, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 49 min |
| May 16, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 30 min |
| May 16, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 28 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.