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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Hastings, NE

June 3, 2005Mitchell County, Osborne County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 2005, 3:05 AM CDT for Mitchell County, Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 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 3, 2005, 3:05 AM CDT (08:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2005, 9:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:06 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 216 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: 2088 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KGID 030805
FFWGID
KSC123-141-031400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
305 AM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MITCHELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  OSBORNE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 900 AM CDT

* AT 305 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY
  HEAVY RAIN FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF BELOIT TO 14 MILES SOUTH OF
  ALTON...OR FROM 21 MILES WEST OF CONCORDIA TO 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  PHILLIPSBURG....MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BELOIT...
  TIPTON...
  ASHERVILLE...
  HUNTER...
  VICTOR...

RADAR ESTIMATES THAT UP TO 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN 
OVER PORTIONS OF OSBORNE AND MITCHELL COUNTIES.  ADDITIONAL RAINFALL 
AMOUNTS UP TO 2 TO 3 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE BEFORE THESE 
THUNDERSTORMS EXIT THE AREA.  THIS WILL MAKE KILL CREEK...COVERT 
CREEK...TWIN CREEK...THE SOUTH FORK OF THE SOLOMON AND THE EAST AND 
WEST FORKS OF WOLF CREEK VULNERABLE TO FLASH FLOODING ACROSS OSBORNE 
COUNTY.  THE WALNUT CREEK...SALT CREEK AND BACON CREEK WILL ALSO BE 
VULNERABLE TO FLASH FLOODING ACROSS MITCHELL COUNTY.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

LAT...LON 3955 9899 3937 9903 3915 9901 3925 9795
      3940 9796 3952 9796

$$

04

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS73 KGID 031022
FFSGID

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
515 AM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005

KSC123-141-031400-
OSBORNE KS-MITCHELL KS-
515 AM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 900 AM CDT FOR MITCHELL AND
OSBORNE COUNTIES...

AT 515 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS SOUTHERN 
MITCHELL AND OSBORNE COUNTIES. THE STORMS WILL REMAIN OVER THOSE 
AREAS THROUGH AT LEAST 7 AM. THOUGH RAINFALL RATES HAD DIMINISHED 
SOME...POCKETS OF BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL LIKELY FROM FROM SOUTH 
OF OSBORNE...EAST THROUGH HUNTER AND TIPTON...TO SOUTH OF 
ASHERVILLE. 

DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES ABOUT 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN 
IN SOUTHEAST OSBORNE AND SOUTHWEST MITCHELL COUNTIES THE LAST
24 HOURS. 

SOME CREEKS AND STREAMS WHICH APPEAR TO BE AT MOST RISK FOR FLOOD
AND FLASH FLOOD CONDITIONS INCLUDE...

IN OSBORNE COUNTY...

THE COVERT CREEK
THE TWIN CREEK
THE EAST BRANCH OF THE WOLF CREEK

IN MITCHELL COUNTY...

THE CARR CREEK
THE WALNUT CREEK
THE SALT CREEK
THE BACON CREEK

RURAL ROADS ALONG THESE STREAMS AND CREEKS...AND NEAR OTHER FLOOD
PRONE AREAS COULD BE UNDER WATER OR DAMAGED. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH
ANY UNKNOWN DEPTH OF WATER. 

LAT...LON 3955 9899 3937 9903 3915 9901 3925 9795
      3940 9796 3952 9796

$$

NOAA/NWS/MORITZ

000 
WGUS73 KGID 031409
FFSGID

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
905 AM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005

KSC123-141-031415-
OSBORNE KS-MITCHELL KS-
905 AM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MITCHELL AND OSBORNE COUNTIES EXPIRED
AT 900 AM CDT...

THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. 
ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL IS NOT EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON...THERE IS 
A CHANCE FOR MORE THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT. 

WIDESPREAD RAINFALL OF 1 TO 3 INCHES THE PAST DAY WILL RESULT IN 
SWOLLEN CREEKS AND STREAMS...AND AREAS OF STANDING OR PONDING OF 
WATER. CONTINUE TO EXERCISE CAUTION TODAY IF YOU TRAVEL ON RURAL 
ROADS IN THE AREA. 

LAT...LON 3955 9899 3937 9903 3915 9901 3925 9795
      3940 9796 3952 9796

$$

JCB

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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.