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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Apr 20, 2005, 10:57 PM CDT for Cloud County, Kansas. It was in force for 108 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 20, 2005, 10:57 PM CDT (03:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 21, 2005, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 108 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cloud County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 2735 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1421 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 8.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KTOP 210357 FFWTOP KSC029-210545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1057 PM CDT WED APR 20 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CLOUD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1245 AM CDT * AT 1055 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL HAD OCCURRED FROM NORTH OF GLASCO TO AURORA. RADAR ESTIMATED TWO INCHES HAD FALLEN SINCE 10 PM IN THAT AREA. THE CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING SLOWLY NORTH AT 5 TO 10 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING OVER THE NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF CLOUD COUNTY. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CONCORDIA... AURORA... JAMESTOWN... CLYDE... BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND...AWAY FROM RISING WATER. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SEVERE WEATHER. LAT...LON 3938 9792 3940 9737 3965 9737 3964 9791 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KTOP 210510 FFSTOP FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1207 AM CDT THU APR 21 2005 KSC029-210545- CLOUD- 1209 AM CDT THU APR 21 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1245 AM CDT FOR CENTRAL CLOUD COUNTY... AT 1209 AM CDT...THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAD MOVED OUT OF CLOUD COUNTY. HOWEVER...RADAR INDICATED THAT AN INCH AN A HALF TO NEARLY THREE INCHES HAD FALLEN IN LESS THAN TWO HOURS TIME FROM NORTH OF GLASCO TO AURORA. THUS...RUNOFF FROM THIS VERY HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS...ESPECIALLY IN THE VICINITY OF AURORA. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... AURORA AND RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL CLOUD COUNTY. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND...AWAY FROM RISING WATER. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. LAT...LON 3938 9792 3938 9736 3954 9738 3952 9793 $$
000 WGUS73 KTOP 210545 FFSTOP FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1245 AM CDT THU APR 21 2005 KSC029-210555- CLOUD- 1245 AM CDT THU APR 21 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CENTRAL CLOUD COUNTY EXPIRED AT 1245 AM CDT... AT 1245 AM CDT...HEAVY RAINFALL HAD MOVED EAST AWAY FROM CLOUD COUNTY. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CLOUD COUNTY WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE LAT...LON 3938 9792 3938 9736 3954 9738 3952 9793 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 51 min |
| Apr 20, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 30 min |
| Apr 20, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay | 43 min |
| Apr 20, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 47 min |
| Apr 21, 12:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 41 min |
| Apr 21, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay | 39 min |
| Apr 21, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie | 65 min |
| Apr 21, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 49 min |
| Apr 21, 3:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 16 min |
| Apr 21, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson | 24 min |
| Apr 21, 3:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson, Nemaha | 47 min |
| Apr 21, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson | 30 min |
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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.