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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Topeka, KS

May 26, 1997Anderson County, Franklin County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 1997, 10:57 PM CDT for Anderson County, Franklin County, Kansas. It was in force for 5 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
May 26, 1997, 10:57 PM CDT (03:57 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1997, 3:50 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Anderson County, KS, Franklin County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 74 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1997-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1997-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-643 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
553 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
190 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTOP 270358
FFWTOP
KSC003-059-270850-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1057 PM CDT MON MAY 26 1997

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
     ANDERSON COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
     FRANKLIN COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 350 AM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
     WILLIAMSBURG
     PRINCETON
     OTTAWA
     RICHMOND
     LANE
     HARRIS
     GARNETT
     GREELEY
     WELDA

* CAUSE AND EFFECT
     PERSISTENT THUNDERSTORMS TRACKING OVER THE SAME AREAS
     BETWEEN OTTAWA AND GARNETT HAVE PRODUCED HEAVY RAINS.  RADAR
     ESTIMATES HAVE AMOUNTS BETWEEN TWO AND THREE INCHES ACROSS
     MAINLY SOUTHERN FRANKLIN AND NORTHERN ANDERSON COUNTIES
     THROUGH 1045 PM MONDAY EVENING.

* FORECAST CONDITIONS
     MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS FRANKLIN AND
     ANDERSON COUNTIES THROUGH THE NIGHT PROMPTING THE ISSUANCE OF
     A FLASH FLOOD WARNING UNTIL AROUND 4 AM CDT.
 n
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOOD WATERS THREATEN!

DONT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS!  MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN
VEHICLES.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGER OF FLOODING.

FRANTZ

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPFranklin20 min
May 26, 11:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPCoffey4 hr

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.