Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2001, 7:32 PM CDT for Geary County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 min. 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 16, 2001, 7:32 PM CDT (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2001, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Geary County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 1220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2182 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KTOP 170032 FFWTOP KSC061-197-170130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 732 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN GEARY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS WESTERN WABAUNSEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 730 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT ONE AND ONE HALF TO TWO AND ONE HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN ACROSS EASTERN GEARY AND FAR WESTERN WABAUNSEE COUNTIES BETWEEN 630 AND 730 PM. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... VOLLAND... RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN GEARY AND WESTERN WABAUNSEE COUNTIES... DO NOT DR0IVE 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 45 min |
| Jun 16, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary | 33 min |
| Jun 16, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Riley | 23 min |
| Jun 16, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Morris, Wabaunsee | 31 min |
| Jun 16, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Riley | 29 min |
| Jun 16, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Morris | 31 min |
| Jun 16, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson | 45 min |
| Jun 16, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 29 min |
| Jun 16, 8:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Geary, Wabaunsee | 112 min |
| Jun 16, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Riley | 28 min |
| Jun 16, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson | 28 min |
| Jun 16, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee | 48 min |
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.