Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 1996, 6:19 PM CDT for Riley County, Kansas. It was in force for 116 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 1996, 6:19 PM CDT (23:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1996, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Riley County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOP 262319 FFWTOP KSC161-270115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 619 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST KANSAS ...SOUTHEASTERN RILEY COUNTY RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES OVER THE PAST HOUR HAVE CAUSED FLOODING OF STREETS IN THE CITY OF MANHATTAN...AND A REPORT OF A ROOF CAVE-IN DUE TO THE RAIN. DONT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS! MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. SD &
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 26, 5:24 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KANSAS
523 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0501 PM VINE CREEK KS .75 INCH HAIL
05/26/96 OTTAWA THREE/FOURTHS INCH HAIL
REPORTED NEAR VINE CREEK
LWSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 62 min |
| May 26, 3:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson | 40 min |
| May 26, 3:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Geary, Riley | 45 min |
| May 26, 3:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 45 min |
| May 26, 4:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary | 34 min |
| May 26, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 36 min |
| May 26, 4:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 36 min |
| May 26, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley | 40 min |
| May 26, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Washington | 36 min |
| May 26, 6:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Osage, Shawnee | 3 hr |
| May 26, 6:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson | 3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.