Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Oct 14, 2007, 6:38 PM CDT for Dickinson County, Geary County, Riley County, Kansas. It was in force for 2 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
- Oct 14, 2007, 6:38 PM CDT (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 14, 2007, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Dickinson County, KS, Geary County, KS, Riley County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 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 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 1217 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 403 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 379 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 142342
FFWTOP
KSC041-061-161-150145-
/O.NEW.KTOP.FF.W.0009.071014T2338Z-071015T0145Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
638 PM CDT SUN OCT 14 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN DICKINSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...
WESTERN GEARY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...
RILEY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS...
* UNTIL 845 PM CDT
* AT 638 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED
TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS
EASTERN DICKINSON INTO GEARY AND RILEY COUNTIES. RADAR ESTIMATES
THAT BETWEEN 1 AND 2 AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THIS
AREA WITH ANOTHER INCH TO TWO INCHES POSSIBLE. THIS WILL LIKELY
CREATE FLASH FLOODING IN THESE AREAS THROUGH 8 PM.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
JUNCTION CITY
MILFORD STATE PARK...
RILEY...
RANDOLPH...
OGDEN...
MILFORD LAKE...
MILFORD...
LEONARDVILLE...
KEATS...
MANHATTAN...
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 282 AND 304.
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 3944 9671 3939 9671 3924 9658 3886 9686
3885 9690 3878 9694 3861 9694 3861 9735
3911 9701 3913 9696 3936 9695 3956 9684
3955 9658
TIME...MOT...LOC 2338Z 180DEG 0KT 3906 9685
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 6:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall | 4 hr |
| Oct 14, 7:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | TOP | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson and 8 more | 20 hr |
| Oct 14, 1:27 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall | 47 hr |
| Oct 14, 2:18 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Washington | 6 hr |
| Oct 14, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Washington | 26 min |
| Oct 14, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 24 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.