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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 24, 2000Doniphan County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 2000, 1:45 AM CDT for Doniphan 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: Jun 24, 2000, 1:45 AM CDT (06:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2000, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Doniphan County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:47 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 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 3505 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1240 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 15.3

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KEAX 240645
FFWEAX
KSC043-241100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
145 AM CDT SAT JUN 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  DONIPHAN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 600 AM CDT

* AT 145 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED...
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM WHITE CLOUD TO
  HIGHLAND TO FANNING. RADAR ESTIMATES BETWEEN 3 AND 4 INCHES OF
  RAIN HAS FALLEN FROM WHITE CLOUD TO HIGHLAND SINCE 11 PM. THE SHERIFFS
  OFFICE REPORTED WATER OVER SOME STREETS IN HIGHLAND. THE STORMS
  ARE MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE EAST WITH ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS
  OVER BROWN COUNTY MOVING EAST AND INTO DONIPHAN COUNTY.

* ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LEAD TO RAPID RISES...AND THE THREAT
  OF FLASH FLOODING...ON THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND CREEKS

  CEDAR CREEK
  ROCK CREEK

SOME CITIES AND TOWNS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE
WHITE CLOUD...SPARKS...SEVERANCE...HIGHLAND...FANNING AND DENTON.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.

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.