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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Topeka, KS

June 29, 2003Morris County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 2003, 3:14 AM CDT for Morris 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 29, 2003, 3:14 AM CDT (08:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2003, 6:15 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Morris County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:13 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 94 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: 2883 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1434 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KTOP 290814
FFWTOP
KSC127-291115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
314 AM CDT SUN JUN 29 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MORRIS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 615 AM CDT

* AT 310 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN AND
  WESTERN MORRIS COUNTY.  RADAR ESTIMATES OF 3 TO 4 INCHES
  OF RAINFALL WAS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF 
  THE COUNTY IN PARTICULAR BETWEEN WHITE CITY...DWIGHT AND
  PARKERVILLE.  

  MORRIS COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED SOME LOTS COVERED BY WATER
  IN DWIGHT.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  DWIGHT
  WHITE CITY
  PARKERVILLE
  LATIMER

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND...AWAY FROM RISING WATER.

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 INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SEVERE WEATHER.

$$
PF

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KTOP 291044
FFSTOP
KSC127-291130-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
545 AM CDT SUN JUN 29 2003

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MORRIS COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

AT 540 AM...RADAR SHOWED THE HEAVY RAIN HAD LET UP ACROSS MORRIS 
COUNTY...AND NO FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED BY THE MORRIS COUNTY 
SHERIFFS OFFICE. NO ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED THIS MORNING 
ALTHOUGH LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SUNRISE. 

CONSEQUENTLY...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MORRIS COUNTY HAS BEEN 
CANCELED.   

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE 
LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SEVERE WEATHER.

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud	51 min
Jun 28, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud	42 min
Jun 28, 10:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Cloud	3 hr
Jun 28, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Washington	54 min
Jun 28, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay	45 min
Jun 28, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Republic	43 min
Jun 28, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud	41 min
Jun 28, 11:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Republic, Washington	3 hr
Jun 28, 11:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Ottawa	63 min
Jun 28, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud	47 min
Jun 28, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Washington	44 min
Jun 28, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay	48 min
Jun 29, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall	39 min
Jun 29, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	49 min
Jun 29, 2:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Morris	35 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.