Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 2, 2004, 2:14 PM CDT for Douglas County, Jefferson County, Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 2004, 2:14 PM CDT (19:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2004, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Douglas County, KS, Jefferson County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 3:07 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Perry, KS | FOUR INCHES OF RAIN IN ABOUT TWO HOURS WITH WATER OVER STREET CURBS IN PERRY. |
| Jul 2, 3:59 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Perry, KS | MANY ROADS IN THE PERRY AREA WERE COVERED BY WATER. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 21 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
- 210 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 706 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 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 021916
FFWTOP
KSC045-087-022115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
214 PM CDT FRI JUL 2 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS
* UNTIL 415 PM CDT
* AT 210 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH
FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM CONTINUED IN PARTS OF NORTHERN DOUGLAS
COUNTY. ONE RESIDENCE NORTHWEST OF LAWRENCE WAS ISOLATED DUE TO
FLOOD WATERS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN THE WARNING
AREA.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PERRY
PERRY LAKE
MERIDEN
LAWRENCE
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.
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.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SEVERE WEATHER.
LAT...LON 3892 9541 3890 9517 3919 9520 3919 9559
3910 9550 3901 9549
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS73 KTOP 022047
FFSTOP
KSC045-087-022115-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
347 PM CDT FRI JUL 2 2004
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN
DOUGLAS AND SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTIES...
AT 337 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH THE WARNING AREA.
RADAR ESTIMATES LOCAL AMOUNTS OF THREE TO FIVE INCHES OF RAIN HAS
FALLEN SINCE LATE MORNING.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PERRY LAKE
MERIDEN
PERRY
WILLIAMSTOWN
LAWRENCE
RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND
STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY ROADS AND FARMLANDS
ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT
TO FLASH FLOODING.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS
TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SEVERE WEATHER.
LAT...LON 3892 9541 3890 9517 3919 9520 3919 9559
3910 9550 3901 9549
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 12:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 4:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee | 3 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.