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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2009, 11:25 PM CDT for Cloud County, Republic 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2009, 11:25 PM CDT (04:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2009, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cloud County, KS, Republic County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:28 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 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 423 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2380 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 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 020425
FFWTOP
KSC029-157-020815-
/O.NEW.KTOP.FF.W.0021.090602T0425Z-090602T0815Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1125 PM CDT MON JUN 1 2009
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN CLOUD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTHEASTERN REPUBLIC COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 315 AM CDT
* AT 1110 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WARNED AREA HAVE BEEN
PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN SINCE ABOUT 9 PM. RADAR ESTIMATES PUT
ACCUMULATIONS ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN REPUBLIC COUNTY AROUND 4 INCHES.
WITH MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL LIKELY FOR A LITTLE WHILE
LONGER...FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND SMALL STREAMS IS
LIKELY INCLUDING ELK CREEK.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
AGENDA...
CLYDE...
CUBA...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF INTERSECTIONS AND
COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND
STREAMS.
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER ATTEMPT TO
CROSS FLOWING WATER IN A CAR OR ON FOOT.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SEVERE WEATHER.
&&
LAT...LON 3979 9736 3953 9736 3951 9745 3953 9754
3984 9758
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS73 KTOP 020522
FFSTOP
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1222 AM CDT TUE JUN 2 2009
KSC029-157-020815-
/O.CON.KTOP.FF.W.0021.000000T0000Z-090602T0815Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
REPUBLIC-CLOUD-
1222 AM CDT TUE JUN 2 2009
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 AM CDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN CLOUD AND SOUTHEASTERN REPUBLIC COUNTIES...
AT 1216 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED
AREA. ESTIMATES ARE NOW SHOWING 4 TO 6 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS FALLEN
OVER SOUTHEAST REPUBLIC COUNTY OVER THE LAST 4 HOURS. FLASH FLOODING
IS HIGHLY LIKELY ACROSS SOUTHEAST REPUBLIC COUNTY AND INTO
NORTHEASTERN CLOUD COUNTY AS THE WATER TRAVELS SOUTH. THIS INCLUDES
ELK CREEK NORTH OF CLYDE.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
AGENDA...CLYDE AND CUBA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION FOR MOTORISTS AND PEOPLE IN LOW LYING
AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS
HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING AND NEVER DRIVE ACROSS
ROADS WITH WATER FLOWING OVER THEM. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND...AWAY
FROM RISING WATER.
&&
LAT...LON 3979 9736 3953 9736 3951 9745 3953 9754
3984 9758
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 7:12 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Marshall | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 32 min |
| Jun 1, 11:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 11:46 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud | 11 hr |
| Jun 2, 12:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 1:31 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Washington | 119 min |
| Jun 2, 1:57 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall | 15 hr |
| Jun 2, 1:57 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall | 21 hr |
| Jun 2, 3:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 4:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas, Franklin, Geary and 9 more | 16 hr |
| Jun 2, 4:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Lyon | 3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.