Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Apr 6, 2004, 7:49 PM CDT for Marshall County, Kansas. It was in force for 86 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 6, 2004, 7:49 PM CDT (00:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2004, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 86 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Marshall County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:50 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 3089 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KTOP 070049 FFWTOP KSC117-070215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 749 PM CDT TUE APR 6 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL MARSHALL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 747 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL MARSHALL COUNTY... OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARYSVILLE. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLAR RADAR INDICATED OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN SINCE 7 PM FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM. THE STORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * THE STORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY 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 3979 9665 3967 9664 3971 9649 3983 9652 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KTOP 070120 FFSTOP KSC117-070215- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 820 PM CDT TUE APR 6 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR CENTRAL MARSHALL COUNTY UNTIL 915 PM CDT... AT 819 PM CDT...FLASH FLOODING CONTINUED IN CENTRAL MARSHALL COUNTY. AT 8 PM WATER WAS REPORTED RUNNING ACROSS THE YARD 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF BLUE RAPIDS. AT 803 PM WATER WAS REPORTED RUNNING OVER DRIVEWAYS AND PASTURES 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARYSVILLE. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF INTERSECTIONS AND ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THE WATER MAY BE VERY DEEP. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SEVERE WEATHER. $$
000 WGUS73 KTOP 070142 FFSTOP KSC117-070215- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 843 PM CDT TUE APR 6 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR CENTRAL MARSHALL COUNTY UNTIL 915 PM CDT... AT 842 PM CDT...FLASH FLOODING CONTINUED IN CENTRAL MARSHALL COUNTY. AT 834 PM CDT WATER WAS REPORTED RUNNING IN THE STREETS IN HOME CITY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO 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. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 47 min |
| Apr 7, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson, Shawnee | 39 min |
| Apr 7, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson | 21 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004
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.