Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 12, 2005, 7:04 PM CDT for Dickinson County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 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, 7:04 PM CDT (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2005, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Dickinson County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 233 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 130006 FFWTOP KSC041-130300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 704 PM CDT THU MAY 12 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN DICKINSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 658 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HERINGTON... CARLTON... HOPE... WOODBINE... ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN DICKINSON COUNTY THIS EVENING. RADAR ESTIMATES IN EXCESS OF AN INCH HAVE ALREADY FALLEN ACROSS SOUTHERN DICKINSON COUNTY. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO THREE INCHES IS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING LEADING TO FLASH FLOODING. 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. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SEVERE WEATHER. LAT...LON 3861 9734 3861 9693 3885 9695 3883 9722 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 10:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 6 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 |
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.