Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 5, 1992, 8:02 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1992, 8:02 PM CDT (01:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1992, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCNK 060103 FFWCNK KSC105-060400- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 802 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CONCORDIA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL KANSAS ...LINCOLN COUNTY AT 8 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING SOUTHWESTWARD FROM CONCORDIA TO 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA NEAR WILSON LAKE. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING ACROSS LINCOLN COUNTY BETWEEN 8 PM AND 9 PM CDT. NUMEROUS REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED OF 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME FROM EARLIER THUNDERSTORMS. THE APPRPOACHING STORMS WILL ONLY ADD TO THE FLOODING. 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. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD 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. WHITMORE
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, Jun 5, 5:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-052315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 517 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 299 IS IN EFFECT FROM 430PM UNTIL 11PM THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR THAT PART OF NORTHEAST KANSAS WEST OF A LINE FROM SENECA TO HOLTON TO ALMA TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF JUNCTION CITY... AT 512 PM...RADAR SHOWED NO PRECIPITATION IN NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS THAT WERE TO THE SOUTH OF LAWRENCE AND TOPEKA EARLIER HAVE DISSIPATED. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER WESTERN KANSAS AND ARE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 35 MPH. THE CLOSEST THUNDERSTORMS TO NORTHEAST KANSAS...THAT MIGHT EVENTUALLY REACH NORTHEAST KANSAS WER TO THE NORTH OF RUSSELL...SOME 15 TO 20 MILES EAST OF PHILLIPSBURG. THESE STORMS...IF THEY CONTINUE THEIR CURRENT MOVEMENT...COULD BE MOVING INTO MARSHALL...RILEY AND GEARY COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS BETWEEN 8 PM AND 9 PM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE COMMERCIAL BROADCAST MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. BILLS
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 5:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-060000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 550 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992 ...TORNADO WATCHES 298 & 299 ARE IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND ALL COUNTIES OF CENTRAL KANSAS EXCEPT RICE AND MCPHERSON... AT 5 48 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PHILLIPSBURG OR JUST EAST OF ALTON IN NORTHERN OSBORNE COUNTY. PEA SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED FROM THIS STORM. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL BE NEAR DOWNS BY 6 05 PM CDT. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTH WEST OF A LINE FROM HEBRON NEBRASKA TO BELOIT TO JUST NORTH OF RUSSELL. THIS AREA IS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. LLS
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 6:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-062325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 625 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 297 FOR NORTHWEST AND PART OF WEST CENTRAL KANSAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED... TORNADO WATCH 297 FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED SOUTHEAST OF THE AREA AND THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER THERE HAS ENDED. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE NO LONGER UNDER ANY WATCH... ...NORTHWEST... CHEYENNE DECATUR NORTON RAWLINS SHERMAN THOMAS ...WEST CENTRAL... WALLACE GREELEY BILLS
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 6:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-060035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 633 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 299 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11PM THIS EVENING FOR THAT PART OF NORTHEAST KANSAS WEST OF A LINE FROM SENECA TO HOLTON TO ALMA TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF JUNCTION CITY... AT 630 PM...RADAR SHOWED NO PRECIPITATION IN NORTHEAST KANSAS. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST THROUGH WESTERN KANSAS AT 30 35 MPH. THE NORTHERN END OF THIS LINE WAS STILL ROUGHLY 30 MILES WEST OF CONCORDIA KANSAS. THESE STORMS...IF THEY CONTINUE AT THEIR CURRENT MOVEMENT...COULD BE MOVING INTO MARSHALL...RILEY AND GEARY COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS AROUND 9 PM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE COMMERCIAL BROADCAST MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. BILLS
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 7:14 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-060245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 713 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 299 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11PM THIS EVENING FOR THAT PART OF NORTHEAST KANSAS WEST OF A LINE FROM SENECA TO HOLTON TO ALMA TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF JUNCTION CITY... AT 710 PM RADAR SHOWED NO PRECIPITATION IN NORTHEAST KANSAS BUT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARYSVILLE TO NEAR CONCORDIA THEN INTO CENTRL KANSAS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO MARSHALL...RILEY AND GEARY COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS BETWEEN 730 AND 9 PM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS DEVEL,OPING WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 7:57 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-060200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 755 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992 ...TORNADO WATCHES 298 & 299 ARE IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND ALL COUNTIES OF CENTRAL KANSAS EXCEPT RICE AND MCPHERSON... AT 755 PM CDT A 10 MILE WIDE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF CONCORDIA OR JUST WEST OF BELLEVILLE TO JUST WEST OF CONCORDIA TO MINNEAPOLIS TO JUST NORTH OF SALINA. VERY HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS.. DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS LINE OF STORMS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL BE NEAR CLAY CENTER AND ABILENE BY 9 PM CDT. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMSf WERE NORTH WEST OF A LINE FROM BEATRICE NEBRASKA TO JUST WEST OF CLAY CENTER TO GREAT BEND. LLS
Nearby
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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.