Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Oct 13, 2007, 8:33 AM CDT for Brown County, Marshall County, Nemaha County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 13, 2007, 8:33 AM CDT (13:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2007, 12:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Brown County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Nemaha County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 9:35 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Hiawatha, KS | 4 TO 6 INCHES OF WATER REPORTED TO BE OVER ROADWAYS IN HIAWATHA. |
| Oct 13, 12:00 PM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 3.7 | 3 Wnw Hiawatha, KS | STORM TOTAL RAINFALL. |
| Oct 13, 12:10 PM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 4.1 | Powhattan, KS | STORM TOTAL RAINFALL. |
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 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 596 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 131337
FFWTOP
KSC013-117-131-131730-
/O.NEW.KTOP.FF.W.0007.071013T1333Z-071013T1730Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
833 AM CDT SAT OCT 13 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
BROWN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS...
NORTHEASTERN MARSHALL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS...
NORTHERN NEMAHA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS...
* UNTIL 1230 PM CDT
* AT 828 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED
THAT 2.5 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN ACROSS THE AREA.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS LIKELY THIS MORNING. WITH GROUNDS ALREADY
SATURATED...THIS ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLASH
FLOODING.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HAMLIN...
SUMMERFIELD...
SABETHA...
RESERVE...
FAIRVIEW...
HIAWATHA...
MORRILL...
BERN...
THIS WILL ALSO AFFECT MOTORISTS ON US HIGHWAY 36 AND US HIGHWAY 75.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL COULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF INTERSECTIONS AND
COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND
STREAMS.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SEVERE WEATHER.
LAT...LON 3999 9551 3965 9533 3965 9578 3993 9637
4000 9636
TIME...MOT...LOC 1333Z 180DEG 0KT 3988 9590
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Wabaunsee | 22 min |
| Oct 13, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 18 min |
| Oct 13, 3:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 29 min |
| Oct 13, 4:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Morris, Wabaunsee | 27 min |
| Oct 13, 4:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 32 min |
| Oct 13, 5:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 34 min |
| Oct 13, 6:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage, Wabaunsee | 44 min |
| Oct 13, 8:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 4 hr |
| Oct 13, 5:38 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall | 67 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.