Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 12, 2005, 10:38 PM CDT for Lyon County, Osage 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
- May 12, 2005, 10:38 PM CDT (03:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2005, 4:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lyon County, KS, Osage County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:42 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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 264 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
- 1203 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 876 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KTOP 130343
FFWTOP
KSC111-139-130945-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1038 PM CDT THU MAY 12 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN LYON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
OSAGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 445 AM CDT
* AT 1038 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHERN
LYON AND MUCH OF OSAGE COUNTY. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL FROM THESE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL FALL IN AREAS THAT ALREADY RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN
EARLIER IN THE EVENING. THIS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING IN
MUCH OF THE AREA THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LYNDON...
AMERICUS...
MELVERN...
READING...
ADMIRE...
OSAGE CITY...
BUSHONG...
BURLINGAME...
OVERBROOK...
POMONA LAKE...
MELVERN LAKE...
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 3848 9634 3873 9634 3873 9594 3882 9593
3884 9590 3885 9551 3846 9553
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS73 KTOP 130621
FFSTOP
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
115 AM CDT FRI MAY 13 2005
KSC111-139-130945-
OSAGE-LYON-
115 AM CDT FRI MAY 13 2005
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 445 AM CDT FOR NORTHERN LYON
AND OSAGE COUNTIES...
AT 114 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER OSAGE
AND PORTIONS OF NORTHERN LYON COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT
2 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA TO THE
NORTH AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 35. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL PROLONG
THE THREAT FOR FLOODING ACROSS THIS AREA THROUGH 4 AM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LYNDON...AMERICUS...MELVERN...READING...QUENEMO...ADMIRE...OSAGE
CITY...BUSHONG...ALLEN...BURLINGAME...POMONA LAKE AND MELVERN LAKE.
RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND
STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY ROADS AND FARMLANDS
ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT
TO FLASH FLOODING.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND...AWAY FROM RISING WATER.
LAT...LON 3848 9634 3873 9634 3873 9594 3882 9593
3884 9590 3885 9551 3846 9553
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 7:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 3 hr |
| May 12, 9:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 3 hr |
| May 12, 9:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas, Shawnee | 3 hr |
| May 12, 10:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 3 hr |
| May 12, 10:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 6 hr |
| May 13, 2:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Lyon | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.