Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 1992, 7:33 PM CDT for Anderson County, Kansas. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1992, 7:33 PM CDT (00:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1992, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Anderson County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 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 KTOP 110033 FFWTOP KSC003-110230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 733 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...SOUTHERN ANDERSON COUNTY AT 730 PM ANDERSON COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED SEVERAL ROADWAYS ARE UNDERWATER IN THE COUNTY. SOME BRIDGES ALONG CREEKS IN THIS AREA ARE ALSO UNDERWATER. SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN ANDERSON COUNTY HAS PRODUCED THIS FLOODING. THESE STORMS ARE DECREASING AND MOVING OUT OF THE COUNTY WHICH WILL ALLOW THE WATER RECEDE. 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. KISNER
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 10, 5:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-102330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 527 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 AT ABOUT 510 PM CDT LYON COUNTY SHERIFF RECEIVED SEVERAL REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF EMPORIA NEAR READING LAKE WHICH WOULD HAVE OCCURRED AROUND 5 PM. TOPEKA RADAR AT 520 PM SHOWED THE THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS AREA HAD DECREAS IN INTENSITY AND HAD MOVED EAST INTO FAR SOUTHERN OSAGE COUNTY AND COFFEY COUNTY. PERSONS IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS HAVE OCCURRED WITH SOME OF THE STORMS AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THAT PART OF NORTHEAST KANSAS SOUTH VAND EAST OF A EMPORIA TO LAWRENCE LINE. MOTORIST SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED ROADWAYS. FRANTZ
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 5:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-110000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 556 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS POSTED FOR THAT PART OF NORTHEAST KANSAS SOUTH AND EAST OF A EMPORIA TO LAWRENCE LINE... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS AT 545 PM CDT...SOME OF THESE WERE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS. STRONGEST STORMS AT THIS TIME WERE ABOUT 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TOPEKA OVER ANDERSON COUNTY AND THESE WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 15 MILES AN HOUR. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE GARNETT VICINITY. THE COMBINATION OF HEAVY RAINS AND SATURATED SOIL COULD PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING IN THIS AREA. PERSONS IN LOW LYING OR FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RISING WATERS. MOTORISTS ARE CAUTIONED NOT TO CROSS WATER COVERED ROADWAYS. ANOTHER AREA OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS WAS ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOPEKA OVER SOUTHERN WABAUNSEE COUNTY. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS NOTED ON THESE RAINS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN SCATTERED OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS THEN BEGIN TO DIMINISH NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70 AFTER MIDNIGHT. OVERNIGHT LOW TEMPERATURES SHOULD BOTTOM OUT IN THE UPPER 50fS TO LOWER 60S. FRANTZ
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 6:49 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-110100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 648 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS POSTED FOR THAT PART OF NORTHEAST KANSAS SOUTH AND EAST OF AN EMPORIA TO LAWRENCE LINE... AT 645 PM CDT...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS FALLING IN SOUTHERN ANDERSON COUNTY SOME 40 MILES SOUTH OF OTTAWA NEAR COLONY AND SELMA. PERSONS IN SOUTHERN ANDERSON COUNTY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING ALONG CREEKS AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE AREAS. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS ROADWAYS THAT ARE UNDER WATER. ALL OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING SLOWLY EAST-NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS THROUGH THIS EVENING...DIMINISHING SOMEWHAT AFTER MIDNIGHT. WINDS WILL BE FROM THE NORTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. OVERNIGHT LOW TEMPERATURES WILL FALL INTO THE UPPER 50S TO LOWER 60S. BARLOW
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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.