Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Feb 28, 2007, 8:58 PM CST for Coffey County, Franklin County, Osage County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 28, 2007, 8:58 PM CST (02:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2007, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coffey County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Osage County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:59 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 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 010306 CCA FFWTOP KSC031-059-139-010700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 858 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN COFFEY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS FRANKLIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS SOUTHERN OSAGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 100 AM CST * AT 855 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OF 2 TO 3 INCHES HAS FALLEN OVER MOST OF THE WARNED AREA. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE EAST NORTHEAST ACROSS THE WARNED AREAS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WELLSVILLE... QUENEMO... POMONA LAKE... POMONA... OTTAWA... OSAGE CITY... MELVERN... LYNDON... THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 35 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 144 AND 198. 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 3870 9594 3837 9595 3839 9507 3873 9507 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 6:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Franklin, Osage | 38 min |
| Feb 28, 6:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey | 26 min |
| Feb 28, 6:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Anderson | 42 min |
| Feb 28, 7:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas | 28 min |
| Feb 28, 7:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Franklin, Osage | 39 min |
| Feb 28, 8:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Franklin | 45 min |
| Feb 28, 8:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Franklin | 37 min |
| Feb 28, 8:58 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Coffey, Franklin, Osage | 4 hr |
| Feb 28, 9:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 43 min |
| Feb 28, 9:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 48 min |
| Feb 28, 9:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 52 min |
| Feb 28, 10:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 50 min |
| Feb 28, 11:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 30 min |
| Mar 1, 10:32 AM CST | Wind Advisory | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ottawa, Republic, Washington | 4 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.