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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Topeka, KS

October 8, 2003Riley County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Oct 8, 2003, 6:45 PM CDT for Riley 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Oct 8, 2003, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired: Oct 8, 2003, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Riley County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 106 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -173 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1031 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 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 082345
FFWTOP
KSC161-090245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
645 PM CDT WED OCT 8 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN AND CENTRAL RILEY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 638 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 2 TO 4 
INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL RILEY COUNTY 
SINCE MID AFTERNOON AND AN ADDITIONAL HALF TO ONE INCH OF RAIN IS 
POSSIBLE.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  RANDOLPH
  LEONARDVILLE
  RILEY

FLOODING OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WERE REPORTED ALONG THE MILL CREEK 
NEAR RANDOLPH. ALSO BLUE RIVER HILLS ROAD HAD WATER FLOWING OVER THE 
ROAD NEAR STOCKDALE PARK. 

ADDITIONAL RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF 
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY ROADS 
AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND LOW LYING 
AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.

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.

LAT...LON 3955 9664 3942 9673 3923 9660 3923 9694
          3955 9693

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KTOP 090051
FFSTOP
KSC161-090245-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
751 PM CDT WED OCT 8 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL RILEY 
COUNTY UNTIL 945 PM CDT...

AT 750 PM CDT...MILL CREEK CONTINUED OUT OF ITS BANKS AND FLOWING 
OVER STOCKDALE ROAD NORTHWEST OF MANHATTAN. 

AT 7 PM...A SPOTTER REPORTED A TREE AND DEBRIS OVER STOCKDALE ROAD 
ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF MANHATTAN. 

ADDITIONAL RAINS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE WARNED AREA AND MAY DROP UP TO 
A HALF INCH OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL.

RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND 
STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY ROADS AND FARMLANDS 
ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS ARE 
SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING...ESPECIALLY LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

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.

$$

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2003 Every flash flood warning in 2003

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.