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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Topeka, KS

May 17, 2001Anderson County, Franklin County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 17, 2001, 5:26 PM CDT for Anderson County, Franklin County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 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 17, 2001, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Anderson County, KS, Franklin County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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-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: 2833 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 818 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 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 
WGUS53 KTOP 172227
FFWTOP
KSC003-059-180115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
526 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN ANDERSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
  SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 515 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED FLOODING ON U S HIGHWAY 59     
  ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTH OF THE FRANKLIN AND ANDERSON COUNTY LINE.
  RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 4 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS 
  SOUTHERN FRANKLIN AND NORTHERN ANDERSON COUNTIES SINCE 3 PM CDT.   
  CURRENT INDICATIONS ARE THAT THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING HEAVY       
  RAINS...WILL CONTINUE IN THESE AREAS THROUGH AT LEAST 630 PM THIS  
  EVENING. 

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  RICHMOND...
  PRINCETON
  GREELEY...
  LANE...
  RANTOUL...

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

DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THE WATER
MAY BE VERY DEEP. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED.

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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Franklin	22 min
May 17, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Franklin	46 min
May 17, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Coffey	33 min
May 17, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Franklin	53 min
May 17, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas	49 min
May 17, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon	31 min
May 17, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Coffey	67 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.