Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 6, 2007, 1:09 AM CDT for Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 2007, 1:09 AM CDT (06:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2007, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ottawa County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:12 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2:50 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 1 S Bennington, KS | ONE HOUSE FLOODED |
| May 6, 2:50 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 3 Se Minneapolis, KS | 4 INCHES OF WATER OVER 160TH ROAD NEAR K106 HIGHWAY. |
| May 6, 3:01 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 2 N Bennington, KS | 6-8 INCHES OF WATER OVER GRANITE RD BETWEEN 170TH AND 180TH RDS. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 1963 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1234 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 294 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 10.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KTOP 060610 FFWTOP KSC143-061000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 109 AM CDT SUN MAY 6 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... OTTAWA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 500 AM CDT * AT 109 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WARNED AREA. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO IN EXCESS OF 3 INCHES ACROSS PORTIONS OF OTTAWA COUNTY SINCE 11 PM SATURDAY EVENING. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... DELPHOS... ADA... MINNEAPOLIS... BENNINGTON... TESCOTT... CULVER... NILES... 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 3930 9792 3930 9736 3895 9737 3895 9793 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KTOP 060733 FFSTOP FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 233 AM CDT SUN MAY 6 2007 KSC143-061000- OTTAWA- 233 AM CDT SUN MAY 6 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT FOR OTTAWA COUNTY... AT 233 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE ESTIMATED TO HAVE FALLEN SINCE LATE SATURDAY EVENING. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... DELPHOS AND ADA DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. LAT...LON 3930 9792 3930 9736 3895 9737 3895 9793 $$
000 WGUS73 KTOP 060816 FFSTOP FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 314 AM CDT SUN MAY 6 2007 KSC143-061000- OTTAWA- 314 AM CDT SUN MAY 6 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT FOR OTTAWA COUNTY... AT 311 AM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING IN THE BENNINGTON AREA....INCLUDING ONE HOUSE FLOODED AND WATER OVER A FEW COUNTY ROADS. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MINNEAPOLIS...BENNINGTON...ADA....DELPHOS...AND TESCOTT. 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 3930 9792 3930 9736 3895 9737 3895 9793 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 34 min |
| May 5, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 55 min |
| May 5, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 31 min |
| May 5, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley | 47 min |
| May 5, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 15 min |
| May 5, 10:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee | 37 min |
| May 5, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 27 min |
| May 5, 11:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall | 45 min |
| May 5, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee | 37 min |
| May 5, 11:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 42 min |
| May 5, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 45 min |
| May 5, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 47 min |
| May 5, 11:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Cloud | 46 min |
| May 6, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson | 30 min |
| May 6, 12:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay, Washington | 45 min |
| May 6, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Riley | 40 min |
| May 6, 12:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Pottawatomie, Washington | 54 min |
| May 6, 1:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Clay, Marshall, Riley | 4 hr |
| May 6, 1:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Marshall, Riley | 4 hr |
| May 6, 3:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Brown, Geary, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Riley | 4 hr |
| May 6, 4:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | TOP | Anderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more | 27 hr |
| May 6, 6:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee | 4 hr |
| May 6, 6:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 4 hr |
| May 6, 7:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas, Osage | 4 hr |
| May 6, 12:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 4 hr |
| May 6, 6:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 4 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.