Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this flash flood warning at Aug 21, 1997, 10:51 PM CDT for Osborne County, Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 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
- Aug 21, 1997, 10:51 PM CDT (03:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 1997, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Osborne County, KS, Rooks County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:52 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 3676 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1196 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.0
- Supercell composite
- 21.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRI 220351 FFWGRI KSC141-163-220800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1051 PM CDT THU AUG 21 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...SOUTHWESTERN OSBORNE COUNTY...ROOKS COUNTY PEOPLE IN ROOKS AND SOUTHWEST OSBORNE COUNTIES ESPECIALLY STOCKTON...CODELL AND NATOMA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR FLASH FLOODING. HEAVY RAINS HAD FALLEN UPON A GOOD PART OF ROOKS COUNTY. RADAR SHOWED HEAVIEST AMOUNTS /ABOUT 3 INCHES/ HAD FALLEN IN AN AREA ABOUT 5 MILES WIDE FROM NORTH OF STOCKTON THROUGH STOCKTON TO NEAR CODELL. UNFORTUNATELY RAIN CONTINUED TO FALL OVER THE SATURATED AREA...AND IT IS FORECAST TO PERSIST THROUGH MIDNIGHT. STREET FLOODING WAS OCCURRING IN STOCKTON AT 1030. THE GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING APPEARS ALONG PARADISE CREEK FROM JUST EAST OF PLAINVILLE TO CODELL AND NATOMA. THE STREAM WILL LIKELY OVERFLOW ITS BANKS EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLASH FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR HAS BEEN REPORTED. RESIDENTS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS BY FOOT OR BY AUTO. SCHURR
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.
NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 21, 2:39 PM CDT, 8 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 2:39 PM CDT, 8 hours 12 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 238 PM CDT THU AUG 21 1997 THUNDERSTORMS MAIN CONCERN AGAIN THIS PACKAGE IN NW FLOW ALOFT. WILL BEGIN FORECAST DISCUSSION WITH YESTERDAYS MODEL RUNS. THEY INDCTD IMPRESSIVE ISENT LIFT OVER SW FA BY THU MORNING. 1.25 IN PCPTBL H2O VALUES WERE LIFTED TO SATURATION ALONG FAVORED 570 THICKNESS CONTOUR WHICH RUNS RIGHT THROUGH SVR WX AREA THIS MORNING AS PER K0K. ON GOING ELEVATED CONVECTION ATTM ALSO NEAR 570 TKNS CONTOUR AS PER K1K AS 1.25 IN CONTS TO BE LIFTED AS PER P03. ALSO COMING INTO PLAY TAFTN IS A JET MAX RIDING NW-SE ACROSS MN/IA AD H7 S/W BOTH PER 12Z UA/PROFS. THESE FEATURES HARD TO DISCERN ON WV IMGRY. THESE STORMS SHOULD CONT INTO EARLY EVENING GRADUALLY SINKING SWD. WHAT IS MORE EVIDENT ON SATELLITE ARE OUTFLOW BNDRIES FROM MORNING TRWS AND NW NEBR S/W WITH IMPRESSIVE DRYING AS PER GLD AFD. THESE SHUD COMBINE WITH MST/UNSTABLE AIR FOR TSTMS THIS EVENING NEBR AND INTO THE NIGHT KS. ALTHOUGH CELL MOVEMENTS QUICK...SOME TRAINING AS OCCURRED THIS MORNING...COULD PRODUCE HEAVY AMOUNTS AND WILL MENTION IN KS TNGT. WILL ALSO MENTION PSBLTY OF SVR WX OVER WRN SECTIONS OF FA CLOSER WHERE SHEAR PROFILES AND HIGHER INSTABILITIES WARRANT HIGHER SVR WX THREAT. MODELS HAVE A TOUGH TIME WITH THIS NW FLOW SO CANT SAY THAT ANY DO A FANTASTIC JOB. NGM DID INITIALIZE VVEL FAIRLY WELL THIS MORNING. WILL GO WITH TYPICAL BLEND OF MODELS USING WV IMGRY EXTRAPOLATION TO GET SOME SEMBLANCE OF TIMING OF PSBL TSTMS FOR OUT PDS. IT APPEARS THAT AFTER TNGT...NEXT CHC COMES AGAIN FRI AND INTO THE EVENING AS A PORTION OF IGNACIO COMES DOWN FRONT SIDE OF UPPER RIDGE. NGM HINTS AT THE RESULTING PRECIP BEST BUT MAY BE A LITTLE SLOW WITH TIMING. WILL GO WITH SMALL POPS FRI/FRI NGT AND LEAVE SAT DRY ATTM AS THERE SHOULD BE SOME BREAK BETWEEN WAVES AFTER TROP SYS REMNANT PASSES. TEMPS FRIDAY PROBABLY A TAD WARMER THAN TODAY WITH ERLY AM TSTMS NOT FCST. SATURDAY REMAINS UP IN THE AIR BUT WILL GO EVEN A LITTLE MORE WARMER AS UPPER RIDGE BUILDS/SHIFTS SLGTLY EWD. FWC/FAN BLEND RSNBL EXCEPT THAT MINS ARE A LITTLE ON THE COOL SIDE GIVEN CURRENT DEW POINTS. . GRI BB 064/082/064/085 4331 ODX BB 061/083/063/085 3331 LXN BB 063/084/062/086 4331 HBR BB 065/083/065/085 4331 BEL BB 067/084/066/086 5331 DROZD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 44 min |
| Aug 21, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 54 min |
| Aug 21, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Rooks | 49 min |
| Aug 21, 9:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Osborne | 43 min |
| Aug 21, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 44 min |
| Aug 21, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Rooks | 46 min |
| Aug 21, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 49 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997
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.