Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 2007, 4:08 AM CDT for Ottawa 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
- May 24, 2007, 4:08 AM CDT (09:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2007, 8:15 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 09:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 9.1 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
- 1254 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1305 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KTOP 240911 FFWTOP KSC143-241315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 408 AM CDT THU MAY 24 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... OTTAWA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 815 AM CDT * AT 405 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT 5 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER SOUTHERN OTTAWA COUNTY. ANOTHER CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING RAINFALL RATES OF 1 INCH PER HOUR HAS DEVELOPED SOUTH OF THE COUNTY AND WILL MOVE OVER THE COUNTY OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BENNINGTON... NILES... MINNEAPOLIS... DELPHOS... ADA... BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND...AWAY FROM RISING WATER. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SEVERE WEATHER. LAT...LON 3896 9791 3896 9737 3930 9737 3931 9793 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Morris | 58 min |
| May 23, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 48 min |
| May 23, 8:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Republic | 4 hr |
| May 23, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 51 min |
| May 23, 9:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Morris | 4 hr |
| May 23, 10:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Morris | 4 hr |
| May 23, 11:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 4 hr |
| May 24, 12:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Clay | 4 hr |
| May 24, 1:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall, Riley, Washington | 4 hr |
| May 24, 1:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Riley | 44 min |
| May 24, 2:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary | 4 hr |
| May 24, 3:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Nemaha, Pottawatomie | 4 hr |
| May 24, 4:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Clay | 113 min |
| May 24, 5:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall, Riley | 114 min |
| May 24, 6:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Geary, Riley | 56 min |
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.