Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 2001, 7:36 PM CDT for Jackson 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
- Jun 19, 2001, 7:36 PM CDT (00:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2001, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:40 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 615 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KTOP 200037 FFWTOP KSC085-200330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 736 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN JACKSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 730 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AROUND THREE TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS PARTS OF EASTERN JACKSON COUNTY SINCE 430 PM. THUNDERSTORMS...WITH ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL...WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP TO THE WEST AND MOVE ACROSS EASTERN JACKSON COUNTY THIS EVENING. A SPOTTER REPORTED 3.7 INCHES OF RAIN NEAR CIRCLEVILLE. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... HOLTON MAYETTA DENISON WHITING RESIDENTS ALONG SPRING CREEK...ELK CREEK...STRAIGHT CREEK AND CEDAR CREEK RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...RURAL COUNTRY ROADS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. 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 19, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Riley | 40 min |
| Jun 19, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Riley | 31 min |
| Jun 19, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 47 min |
| Jun 19, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Geary, Riley | 34 min |
| Jun 19, 10:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 12:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Jackson | 4 hr |
| Jun 20, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Morris | 46 min |
| Jun 20, 3:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Jackson | 4 hr |
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.