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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 16, 1995, 9:39 PM CDT for Douglas County, Osage County, Shawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1995, 9:39 PM CDT (02:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1995, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Douglas County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 16 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
- 426 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -256 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOP 170239 FFWTOP KSC045-139-177-170645- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 939 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...SOUTHERN DOUGLAS COUNTY...NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTY ...SOUTHERN SHAWNEE COUNTY RAINFALL OF ONE TO THREE INCHES WITH INTENSE TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS PRODUCED FLASH FLOODING. SOME ROADWAYS WERE UNDER TWO TO THREE FEET OF WATER IN THE WARNED AREA. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER OVER ROADWAYS. THE ROADBED MAY BE WASHED AWAY AND YOUR CAR SWEPT AWAY BUT THE CURRENT. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. STREAMS, RIVERS, AND CREEKS CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAIN. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS. &
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, May 16, 4:57 PM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
KSZ001>101-162300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 456 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 407 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF KANSAS. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...CENTRAL... BARTON ELLSWORTH LINCOLN RICE RUSSELL ...SOUTH CENTRAL... HARVEY RENO STAFFORD THE FOLLOWING CITIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH... GREAT BEND HUTCHINSON RUSSELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 7:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Morris | 53 min |
| May 16, 7:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 4 hr |
| May 16, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon, Wabaunsee | 33 min |
| May 16, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary | 55 min |
| May 16, 8:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Osage | 26 min |
| May 16, 8:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas, Osage | 46 min |
| May 16, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 53 min |
| May 16, 9:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Morris | 4 hr |
| May 16, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary | 40 min |
| May 16, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 48 min |
| May 16, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 43 min |
| May 16, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas | 36 min |
| May 16, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Morris, Wabaunsee | 41 min |
| May 16, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 36 min |
| May 16, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 32 min |
| May 17, 1:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary | 3 hr |
| May 17, 1:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas, Osage, Shawnee | 3 hr |
| May 17, 1:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Franklin | 3 hr |
| May 17, 1:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 49 min |
| May 17, 1:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 44 min |
| May 17, 1:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 48 min |
| May 17, 2:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 25 min |
| May 17, 2:19 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Geary | 41 min |
| May 17, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay | 44 min |
| May 17, 2:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 39 min |
| May 17, 2:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 3 hr |
| May 17, 3:12 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 34 min |
| May 17, 3:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 37 min |
| May 17, 3:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 35 min |
| May 17, 3:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 30 min |
| May 17, 3:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary | 4 hr |
| May 17, 4:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin, Osage, Shawnee | 4 hr |
| May 17, 4:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Morris | 28 min |
| May 17, 4:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon | 37 min |
| May 17, 4:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 4 hr |
| May 17, 5:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 36 min |
| May 17, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey | 25 min |
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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.