Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 1992, 10:06 PM CDT for Cloud County, Kansas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1992, 10:06 PM CDT (03:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1992, 6:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cloud County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCNK 100308 FFWCNK KSC029-101115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1006 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CONCORDIA HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 AM CDT WED JUNE 10 1992 FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHWESTERN CLOUD COUNTY THE WARNING DOES NOT INCLUDE THE CITY OF CONCORDIA...BUT DOES INCLUDE JAMESTOWN. AT 10PM...THE CHEYENNE AND BUFFALO CREEKS IN NORTHWEST CLOUD COUNTY HAD RISEN OUT OF THEIR BANKS. FROM 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN FELL OVER THE AREA AND UPSTREAM OF THESE CREEKS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS ON TUESDAY. FLOODING IS OCCURING ALONG THE CREEKS AND THE WATER WILL RUN INTO FIELDS AND OVER THE TOWNSHIP ROADS THAT ARE CLOSE BY. IF YOU LIVE IN JAMESTOWN IN LOW LYING OR FLOOD PRONE AREAS...MOVE PROPERTY TO HIGHER GROUND. THE HIGH WATER WILL LIKELY NOT CREST UNTIL EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING ALONG BUFFALO CREEK. 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. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS TO RISE. FREDERICK
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, 7:14 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 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, 2 hours 45 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, 1 hour 41 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, 1 hour 40 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, 1 hour 38 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&
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 9:17 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
KSZ003-006-100320- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 917 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 323 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF KANSAS. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...SOUTHWEST... FINNEY GRANT GRAY HAMILTON HASKELL KEARNY MEADE MORTON SEWARD STANTON STEVENS THE FOLLOWING CITIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH... GARDEN CITY LIBERAL BARLOW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 8:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Barton | 51 min |
| Jun 9, 9:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1992Every flash flood warning in 1992
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.