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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Topeka, KS

May 23, 1995Dickinson County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 23, 1995, 11:00 AM CDT for Dickinson County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 1995, 11:00 AM CDT (16:00 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 1995, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Dickinson County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 132 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 332 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 667 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 394 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 447 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 7.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTOP 231600
FFWTOP
KSC041-231900-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1100 AM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS EXTENDED
THE FLOOD WARNING UNTIL 200 PM FOR PEOPLE IN THE
FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...DICKINSON COUNTY
 
UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN FELL EARLIER THIS MORNING...CAUSING FLOODING
ACROSS MUCH OF THE COUNTY. DICKINSON COUNTY SHERIFFS REPORT SEVERAL
ROADS ARE STILL IMPASSIBLE DUE TO THE WATER. THEREFORE THE FLOOD WARNING
HAS BEEN EXTENDED INTO THIS AFTERNOON.
 
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.
 
DERGAN

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

Local storm report, May 23, 10:25 AM CDT, 35 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT...PRELIMINARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1025 AM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995

TIME****   LOCATION OF EVENT*******  ST   TYPE OF EVENT/DAMAGE******
DATE****   COUNTY INVOLVED*********       FATALITIES AND INJURIES***
                                          REMARKS*******************
--------------------------------------------------------------------
0725       DOVER                     KS   1.00 HAIL
5/23/95    SHAWNEE

0730-0820 NUMEROUS REPORTS OF PEA TO MARBLE HAIL ACROSS SHAWNEE
          COUNTY AND THE CITY OF TOPEKA. WIDESPREAD LOCAL FLOODING
          OF INTERSECTIONS, LOW SPOTS AND STREETS.

END

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 7:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	32 min
May 23, 7:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Shawnee	62 min
May 23, 8:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Dickinson	3 hr
May 23, 8:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Shawnee, Wabaunsee	4 hr
May 23, 9:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Morris	4 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.