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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Topeka, KS

June 16, 2001Geary County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2001, 8:38 PM CDT for Geary County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas. It was in force for 112 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, 8:38 PM CDT (01:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2001, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 112 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 01:37 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, 1.6 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.

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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KTOP 170139
FFWTOP
KSC061-197-170330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
838 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN GEARY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
  WESTERN WABAUNSEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 837 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT 
ANYWHERE FROM TWO TO FIVE INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN SOUTH AND EAST 
OF JUNCTION CITY.  THE AREA AFFECTED IS FROM THE VOLLAND AREA OF 
WESTERN WABAUNSEE COUNTY...ACROSS SOUTHERN GEARY COUNTY.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  JUNCTION CITY
  VOLLAND

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.

DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THEC 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, 7:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Geary, Wabaunsee	58 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, 8:47 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.