Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 2001, 11:58 PM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 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
- Jul 26, 2001, 11:58 PM CDT (04:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2001, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rooks County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:02 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 2739 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1563 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KGID 270504 FFWGID KSC163-271100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1158 PM CDT THU JUL 26 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ROOKS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 600 AM CDT * AT 1158 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STOCKTON...OR ABOUT 28 MILES SOUTH OF PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THIS WARNING INCLUDE STOCKTON...PLAINVILLE... CODELL AND WOODSTON. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN...WILL DUMP 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF ROOKS COUNTY THROUGH 3 AM THIS MORNING. RAINFALL IN THE COUNTY LAST NIGHT HAS SATURATED THE GROUND ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY...AND ADDITIONAL RAINS THIS MORNING WILL CAUSE RAPID RISES ON CREEKS AND STREAMS. ONE AREA OF PARTICULAR CONCERN IS ALONG THE PARADISE CREEK...WHICH IS MOST SUSCEPTIBLE TO FLASH FLOODING TONIGHT. COUNTY ROADS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS MAY BE UNDER WATER. TRAVEL WITH EXTREME CARE OVERNIGHT. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS...ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. 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 THO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. $$ LAT...LON 3949 9959 3915 9956 3917 9909 3952 9910 NNNN
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 Jul 26, 2:25 PM CDT, 9 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 2:25 PM CDT, 9 hours 33 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 225 PM CDT THU JUL 26 2001 MAIN CONCERN THIS PACKAGE IS THUNDER CHANCES. WATER VAPOR SATL PIX THIS AFTERNOON SHOWS A RATHER POTENT VORT MAX NEAR THE GREAT BASIN. WITH TIME THIS ENERGY SHOULD RUN UP AND OVER THE HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE SITUATED OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS. MOISTURE THOUGH REMAINS AMPLE FLOWING FROM THE SUB-TROPICS. AT THE SURFACE A STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXTENDED FROM NORTHERN OKLA TO JUST OFF THE NEW ENGLAND COAST. NORTH OF THE BOUNDARY HIGH PRESSURE WAS SITUATED NEAR THE GREAT LAKES WITH A TROF OF LOW PRESSURE BEGINNING TO SLIDE THRU THE DAKOTAS. STORMS APPEAR LIKELY TO AFFECT OUR AREA SOMETIME AROUND MIDNIGHT. AT THAT TIME THE MID LEVEL WAVE...MOST PRONOUNCED AROUND 700MB APPROACHES THE CWA. OMEGA VALUES SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE AS THE WAVE MOVES THRU AN AREA OF STRONG DPVA...AIDED BY FAVORABLE UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE AND MID LEVEL WAA. MODEL QPF HIT THE AREA HARD...BUT GREATEST PCPN CHANCES WILL PROBABLY BE OVER NRN SECTIONS OF THE CWA. THE WAVE MOVES QUICKLY THRU THE CWA...SO EXPECT SOME LINGERING CONVECTION DURING THE MORNING HOURS FRIDAY. AFTERWHICH THE ETA APPEARS TO INTRODUCE SUBSIDENCE/MID LEVEL Q-VECTOR INTO THE NEB CWA LATE FRIDAY THRU FRIDAY NIGHT. SO EXPECT CLOUDS TO DISSIPATE QUICKLY. SOUTH THOUGH...THE ETA HINTS AT MORE CONVECTION TO FIRE FRIDAY NIGHT OVER OUR KS CWA AND ACTUALLY SUGGEST QPF AMOUNTS NEAR 6 INCHES OVERNIGHT. THE NGM AND THE AVN ALSO SUGGEST ACTIVITY TO BE SOUTH...BUT THEIR QPF AMOUNTS LOOK MUCH MORE REASONABLE THAN THE ETA. SO SMALL POPS OVER OUR KS CWA IS PROBABLY JUSTIFIED. MADE SOME MAJOR CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED. HAVE DECIDED TO PULL PCPN CHANCES ENTIRELY AND BUMP UP TEMPS. THE LATEST AVN RUN REALLY DIDN'T SHOW ANYTHING TOO COMPELLING TO JUSTIFY LEAVING PCPN CHANCES GOING THRU WEDNESDAY. ALSO WITH RIDGING FORECAST TO AMPLIFY...HAVE RAISED TEMPS. .GID...NONE. DEE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 43 min |
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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.