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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Topeka, KS

June 9, 1992Coffey County, Lyon County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 1992, 9:00 PM CDT for Coffey County, Lyon County, Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 1992, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1992, 11:27 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Coffey County, KS, Lyon County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 77 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1992-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 709 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1992-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 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
709 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
793 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-4 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 KTOP 100203
FFWTOP
KSC031-111-100500-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
900 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING  EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...COFFEY COUNTY...NORTHEASTERN LYON COUNTY
 
AT 900 PM...HEAVY RAINS FROM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE LIKELY
PRODUCED AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING IN PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST LYON COUNTY
AND MUCH OF COFFEY COUNTY. RAINFALL REPORTS OF OVER 2 TO 3 INCHES HAVE
LIKELY OCCURRED IN THE PAST 2 HOURS. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING ONLY
SLOWLY NORTH AT 5 TO 10 MPH.
 
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.

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 9, 6:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-100100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
632 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992

...A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAD MOVED INTO NORTHWEST
RICE...SOUTHWEST ELLSWORTH AND NORTHEASTERN BARTON COUNTY...

AT 630PM...THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR LINCOLN OR 45 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF CONCORDIA TO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GREAT BEND. THE STRONGEST STORM
WAS IN THE BUSHTON AND FREDERICK AREAS. IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH
AND WILL BE IN THE KANOPOLIS LAKE AREA AFTER 7PM.  THIS STORM COULD ALSO
PRODUCE SOME HAIL AND STRONG WINDS AND IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
MOVE INDOORS UNTIL IT PASSES.

FREDERICK
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 7:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-100100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
714 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992

...A THUNDERSTORM WITH TORRENTIAL RAINS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL WAS NEAR
KANOPOLIS OR 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREAT BEND...

THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL BE NEAR THE
NORTHERN END OF KANOPOLIS LAKE AND CARNEIRO BY 745. ALSO SOME STRONG
WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

OTHER STORMS WERE WEST OF THE RUSSELL AREA AND OVER SOUTHERN BARTON
COUNTY. THESE WERE DROPPING SOME HEAVY RAIN ALSO AS THEY MOVED NORTHEAST.

JF
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 7:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
KSZ013>016-100130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
719 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992

...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
   KANSAS...

AT 710 PM...RADAR SHOWED THE LEADING EDGE OF A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS FROM 20 MILES WEST OF TOPEKA NEAR ALMA TO 40 MILES EAST-
SOUTHEAST OF EMPIRIA NEAR GARNETT. OTHER ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE LOCATED
20 MILES NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF TOPEKA NEAR HOLTON AND LAKE PERRY AND
ALSO NEAR MARYSVILLE.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOPEKA.
THIS STORM WILL LIKELY CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...DEADLY
LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. ALL OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TO THE
NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE TOWNS OF HARVEYVILLE...DOVER AND
AUBURN ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM AND SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AS THIS
STORM MOVES INTO THEIR AREA BETWEEN 730 AND 815 PM.

+
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS PORTIONS OF
NORTHEAST KANSAS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING. TEMPERATURES WILL
FALL INTO THE UPPER 60S BY 8 PM WITH THE OVERNIGHT LOW 60 TO 65.

WINDS WILL BE FROM THE EAST AT 5 TO 15 MPH...EXCEPT STRONGER IN
THUNDERSTORMS.

BARLOW
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 8:25 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
KSZ013>016-100245-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
824 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992

...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
   KANSAS WITH HEAVY RAIN FALLING IN SOME AREAS...

AT 820 PM...RADAR SHOWED THE LEADING EDGE OF A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF TOPEKA NEAR ROSSVILLE
TO NEAR OTTAWA.  THE STRONGEST STORMS IN THIS AREA WERE FROM 20 MILES
NORTH OF EMPORIA NEAR ADMIRE...TO 25 MILES EAST-SOUTHEAST OF EMPORIA NEAR
BURLINGTON AND THE WOLF CREEK AREA.  THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY CONTAIN
HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING AS THEY DRIFT NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

OVER AN INCH OF RAIN /1.10/ FELL AT EMPORIA BETWEEN 7 AND 8PM THIS
EVENING.  RAINFALL AMOUNTS NEAR 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE BETWEEN EMPORIA
AND TOPEKA IN THE ADMIRE...BURLINGAME AND OSAGE CITY AREAS.  THIS WILL
LIKELY CAUSE POOLING AND PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS.  PERSONS
IN NORTHERN OSAGE, NORTHEAST LYON AND SOUTHEAST WABAUNSEE COUNTIES
SHOULD BE READY TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR
REPORTED.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS PORTIONS OF
NORTHEAST KANSAS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING. TEMPERATURES WILL
FALL INTO THE UPPER 60S BY 10PM WITH THE OVERNIGHT LOW 60 TO 65.

WINDS WILL BE FROM THE EAST AT 5 TO 15 MPH...EXCEPT STRONGER IN
THUNDERSTORMS.
LWS
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 8:26 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-100200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
825 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS DROPPING TORRENTAL RAIN WERE IN EASTERN ELLSWORTH
COUNTY...

AT 820PM...RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SALINA
ALONG THE ELLSWORTH-SALINE COUNTY BORDER. THIS STORM DROPPED OVER
3 INCHES OF RAIN IN KANOPOLIS BETWEEN 7 AND 8 O'CLOCK. SOME FLOODING
OF LOW LYING AREAS HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE KANOPOLIS AREA.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTH OF A HAYS TO CONCORDIA TO ABILENE LINE
AND WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

SOUTHERN BARTON...EASTERN ELLSWORTH AND WESTERN SALINE COUNTY CAN EXPECT
HEAVY RAINS AND SOME FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS AND ALONG CREEKS IS
POSSIBLE.
...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS...
GO TO SAFE SHELTER OR HIGH GROUND IF FLOODING THREATENS YOUR AREA.
DO NOT DRIVE OVER WATER COVERED ROADS.

JF
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 8:28 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-100200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED DIRECTION FROM SALINA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
828 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS DROPPING TORRENTAL RAIN WERE IN EASTERN ELLSWORTH
COUNTY...

AT 820PM...RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SALINA
ALONG THE ELLSWORTH-SALINE COUNTY BORDER. THIS STORM DROPPED OVER
3 INCHES OF RAIN IN KANOPOLIS BETWEEN 7 AND 8 O'CLOCK. SOME FLOODING
OF LOW LYING AREAS HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE KANOPOLIS AREA.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTH OF A HAYS TO CONCORDIA TO ABILENE LINE
AND WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

SOUTHERN BARTON...EASTERN ELLSWORTH AND WESTERN SALINE COUNTY CAN EXPECT
HEAVY RAINS AND SOME FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS AND ALONG CREEKS IS
POSSIBLE.
...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS...
GO TO SAFE SHELTER OR HIGH GROUND IF FLOODING THREATENS YOUR AREA.
DO NOT DRIVE OVER WATER COVERED ROADS.

JF&

The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 8:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPBarton51 min
Jun 9, 10:06 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPCloud8 hr

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.