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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 2004, 3:04 AM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 116 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
- Jul 9, 2004, 3:04 AM CDT (08:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2004, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:07 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 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 1519 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -301 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1532 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 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 090807 FFWTOP KSC027-029-143-157-201-091000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 304 AM CDT FRI JUL 9 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN CLAY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS CLOUD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS NORTHWESTERN OTTAWA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS REPUBLIC COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 500 AM CDT * AT 300 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... JAMESTOWN CONCORDIA COURTLAND NORWAY SCANDIA REPUBLIC BELLEVILLE MAHASKA WASHINGTON BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND...AWAY FROM RISING WATER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SEVERE WEATHER. LAT...LON 3997 9791 3903 9791 3965 9684 3998 9685 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic, Washington | 66 min |
| Jul 9, 2:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Ottawa, Republic, Washington | 61 min |
| Jul 9, 2:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Marshall, Ottawa, Riley | 54 min |
| Jul 9, 3:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley | 58 min |
| Jul 9, 3:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 55 min |
| Jul 9, 3:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Ottawa, Pottawatomie, Riley | 110 min |
| Jul 9, 4:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Morris | 60 min |
| Jul 9, 4:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Geary, Jackson, Morris, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 115 min |
| Jul 9, 4:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Ottawa, Republic, Washington | 2 hr |
| Jul 9, 5:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 61 min |
| Jul 9, 6:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 2 hr |
| Jul 9, 8:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 2 hr |
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.