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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Topeka, KS

June 6, 1996Geary County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 1996, 7:46 AM CDT for Geary County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 6, 1996, 7:46 AM CDT (12:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1996, 10:45 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Geary County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:49 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 261 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: 33 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 810 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTOP 061248
FFWTOP
KSC061-197-061545-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
746 AM CDT THU JUN 6 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING       EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...GEARY COUNTY...WABAUNSEE COUNTY
 
AT 740 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 5 MILE WIDE BAND OF
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR ABILENE EAST TO NEAR JUNCTION CITY
IN GEARY COUNTY AND THEN EAST TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALMA. THESE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL OF ONE TO TWO INCHES
AN HOUR.
 
THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND SHOULD PERSIST ACROSS MUCH
OF GEARY AND WABAUNSEE COUNTIES THROUGH 10 AM. THIS HEAVY RAINFALL
ON ALREADY SATURATED SOILS FROM RECENT HEAVY RAINS WILL RESULT IN
FLOODING...ESPECIALLY ALONG STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS THROUGH MID
MORNING.
 
WABAUNSEE COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORT WATER ALREADY OVER
K-4 HIGHWAY 12 MILES SOUTH OF ALMA FROM THIS MORNINGS RAINFALL.
 
MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO BE AWARE FOR FLOODING OF ROADWAYS THROUGH 10 AM.
 
DONT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS!  MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN
VEHICLES.
 
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOOD WATERS THREATEN!
REMEMBER...NEVER CROSS A FLOWING STREAM ON FOOT.
 
SW
 
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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, Jun 6, 2:54 AM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KANSAS
253 AM CDT THU JUN 06 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0635 PM    MERIDEN                   KS   1 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   JEFFERSON

0711 PM    WETMORE                   KS   .75 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   NEMAHA

0730 PM    1 S WHITING               KS   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   JACKSON

1004 PM    OSKALOOSA                 KS   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   JEFFERSON

1004 PM    2 W OSKALOOSA             KS   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/05/96   JEFFERSON

1004 PM    2 S OSKALOOSA             KS   .88 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   JEFFERSON

1030 PM    EUDORA                    KS   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   DOUGLAS

1038 PM    3 E LAWRENCE              KS   .75 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   DOUGLAS

1055 PM    LAWRENCE                  KS   FLOODING
06/05/96   DOUGLAS                        WATER OVER MANY
                                          INTERSECTIONS IN LAWRENCE
1115 PM    LAWRENCE                  KS   FLOODING
06/05/96   DOUGLAS                        ALL STREETS IN LAWRENCE
                                          UNDER AT LEAST 12 INCHES
                                          WATER...SEVERAL HIGHWAYS
                                          IN AND AROUND LAWRENCE
                                          UNDER WATER AND
                                          UNPASSABLE.

1127 PM    TOPEKA BILLARD ARPT       KS   .75 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   SHAWNEE

1133 PM    TOPEKA                    KS   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   SHAWNEE

1147 PM    TOPEKA                    KS   .75 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   SHAWNEE

1220 AM    WILMINGTON                KS   1 INCH HAIL
06/06/96   WABAUNSEE

1234 AM    SENECA                    KS   .75 INCH HAIL
06/06/96   NEMAHA                         3 MILES SOUTHWEST
1240 AM    BURLINGAME                KS   1 INCH HAIL
06/06/96   OSAGE

b1240 AM    POMONA                    KS   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/06/96   FRANKLIN

0110 AM    LYNDON                    KS   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/06/96   OSAGE

END

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 5:29 AM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

KSZ003>012-015>024-026-029>040-044>056-058-059-065>072-079>083-
089>100-062100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
530 AM CDT THU JUN 6 1996

...THERE IS A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN
   KANSAS THROUGH MID AFTERNOON...

THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN KANSAS
THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL LIKELY BE SEVERE
AND PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS AS WELL.

THE AREA M.OST LIKELY TO SEE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS GENERALLY
EAST OF A LINE FROM PHILLIPSBURG TO WAKEENEY TO NESS CITY TO
GREENSBURG TO MEDICINE LODGE.

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND EVEN TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE.

PB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Nemaha	25 min
Jun 5, 7:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Jackson	33 min
Jun 5, 8:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Jefferson	29 min
Jun 5, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown	49 min
Jun 5, 8:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Jefferson	27 min
Jun 5, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jefferson	40 min
Jun 5, 9:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Jefferson	4 hr
Jun 5, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jefferson	39 min
Jun 5, 10:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Douglas	44 min
Jun 5, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson	40 min
Jun 5, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jefferson	33 min
Jun 5, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas	47 min
Jun 5, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Shawnee	43 min
Jun 5, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Franklin	57 min
Jun 5, 11:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson	3 hr
Jun 5, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Shawnee	39 min
Jun 5, 11:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Shawnee	3 hr
Jun 5, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Osage, Shawnee	45 min
Jun 6, 12:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Osage	36 min
Jun 6, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Nemaha	46 min
Jun 6, 12:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Osage, Wabaunsee	35 min
Jun 6, 1:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Osage	44 min
Jun 6, 1:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson	37 min
Jun 6, 1:59 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson, Shawnee	4 hr
Jun 6, 2:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jefferson, Shawnee	45 min
Jun 6, 3:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Ottawa	48 min
Jun 6, 4:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Geary	45 min
Jun 6, 5:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Riley	33 min
Jun 6, 5:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	42 min
Jun 6, 6:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud, Ottawa	46 min
Jun 6, 6:31 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee	3 hr
Jun 6, 7:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Ottawa	58 min

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.