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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Topeka, KS

June 26, 2002Brown County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 2002, 5:57 PM CDT for Brown 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 26, 2002, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Brown County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 92 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2002-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 384 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2002-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
384 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-162 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1341 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
32 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 262257
FFWTOP
KSC013-270200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
556 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN BROWN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 553 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THREE TO 
FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA THROUGH THE LATE 
AFTERNOON...WITH STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEARLY STATIONARY 
OVER THIS AREA.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  ROBINSON
  POWHATTAN
  WILLIS
  HIAWATHA

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 4:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP38 min
Jun 26, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP49 min
Jun 26, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP43 min
Jun 26, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP45 min
Jun 26, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP53 min
Jun 26, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP47 min
Jun 26, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP42 min
Jun 26, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP24 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.