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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Topeka, KS

June 24, 2000Brown County, Nemaha County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 2000, 2:18 AM CDT for Brown County, Nemaha 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
Jun 24, 2000, 2:18 AM CDT (07:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 2000, 7:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Brown County, KS, Nemaha County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:22 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 90 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 2000-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3505 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2000-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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 KTOP 240718
FFWTOP
KSC013-131-241200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
218 AM CDT SAT JUN 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BROWN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS
  NORTHEASTERN NEMAHA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 700 AM CDT

* AT 215 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY       
  HEAVY RAINS OF 3 TO 6 INCHES HAVING FALLEN OVER NORTHEAST NEMAHA   
  AND MOST OF BROWN COUNTY SINCE 8PM LAST EVENING. WITH THE RAIN     
  EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH 4 AM...FLASH FLOODING OF STREAMS...
  CREEKS AND DRAINAGE DITCHES IS LIKELY. 

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  RURAL BROWN COUNTY
  RURAL NORTHEASTERN NEMAHA COUNTY

RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND
STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY ROADS AND FARMLANDS
ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT
TO FLASH FLOODING.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLOODING OCCURS MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. DO NOT
STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE 
LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPBrown38 min
Jun 23, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPBrown45 min
Jun 23, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson30 min
Jun 23, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPBrown48 min
Jun 23, 10:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson, Geary40 min
Jun 23, 10:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPNemaha44 min
Jun 23, 11:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPBrown4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.