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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Topeka, KS

June 6, 2004Ottawa County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 2004, 12:59 AM CDT for Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 2 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: Jun 6, 2004, 12:59 AM CDT (05:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2004, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ottawa County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:59 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 199 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -162 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1059 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KTOP 060600
FFWTOP
KSC143-060800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1259 AM CDT SUN JUN 6 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN OTTAWA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 300 AM CDT

* AT 1255 AM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED HEAVY 
RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM NORTH AND WEST OF MINNEAPOLIS...OR ABOUT 24 
MILES NORTHWEST OF SALINA. THE STORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS 
DRIFTING NORTHWEST.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  DELPHOS
  ADA
  SUMMERVILLE

LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS NORTH OF MINNEAPOLIS 
HAD WATER FLOWING OVER THEM SIX TO EIGHT INCHES DEEP. PUBLIC REPORTS 
OF 4 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF INTERSECTIONS AND
ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

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 3897 9791 3898 9755 3930 9755 3929 9791

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS73 KTOP 060637
FFSTOP
KSC143-060800-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
135 AM CDT SUN JUN 6 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR WESTERN OTTAWA COUNTY UNTIL
300 AM CDT...

AT 130 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT 
THE STORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL IN WESTERN OTTAWA COUNTY HAS 
DISSIPATED. FLOODING MAY STILL BE POSSIBLE DUE TO RUNOFF FROM 
PREVIOUS HEAVY RAINFALL DURING THE LAST THREE HOURS.

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.

$$

000 
WGUS73 KTOP 060804
FFSTOP
KSC143-060805-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
300 AM CDT SUN JUN 6 2004

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WESTERN OTTAWA COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED 
TO EXPIRE...

NO WATER WAS REPORTED OVER AREA ROADWAYS...THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD 
WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. DRIVERS SHOULD REMAIN CAUTIOUS 
FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF STANDING WATER ON SOME COUNTY ROADWAYS ACROSS 
WESTERN OTTAWA COUNTY.

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

$$

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.