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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood watch at May 23, 2008, 3:23 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It took effect at May 23, 2008, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2008, 3:23 PM CDT (20:23 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 23, 2008, 10:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 24, 2008, 3:05 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cloud County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Republic County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 810 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at May 23, 3:12 PM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 3:12 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
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Local storm report, May 23, 9:23 AM CDT, 6 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
923 AM CDT FRI MAY 23 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0921 AM HAIL CONCORDIA 39.57N 97.66W
05/23/2008 E0.50 INCH CLOUD KS COUNTY OFFICIAL
ESTIMATED DIME SIZED HAIL.
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AWSpecial weather statement, May 23, 9:45 AM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 945 AM CDT FRI MAY 23 2008 KSZ008-009-020-231530- CLOUD-REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON- 945 AM CDT FRI MAY 23 2008 THROUGH 1030 AM CDT...A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT 32 MPH ACROSS PORTIONS OF REPUBLIC...WASHINGTON AND CLOUD COUNTIES. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THIS CLUSTER OF STORMS IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL. SOME LOCATIONS THAT COULD BE AFFECTED INCLUDE AGENDA...CUBA...MUNDEN...NORWAY...HADDAM...BELLEVILLE...NARKA... MORROWVILLE...MAHASKA AND HOLLENBURG. STAY ALERT TO THE WEATHER IN CASE A WARNING IS ISSUED. KONOP
Special weather statement, May 23, 10:17 AM CDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1017 AM CDT FRI MAY 23 2008 KSZ008-009-231545- REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON- 1017 AM CDT FRI MAY 23 2008 THROUGH 1045 AM CDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH ACROSS NORTHERN REPUBLIC AND NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTIES. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. SOME LOCATIONS THAT COULD BE AFFECTED INCLUDE MUNDEN...NARKA...MAHASKA...WASHINGTON...MORROWVILLE AND HOLLENBURG.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 7:26 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Jackson, Riley | 47 days |
| May 22, 7:40 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Jefferson, Ottawa | 79 days |
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.