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River Flood Warning 36, NWS Topeka, KS

June 16, 2010Pottawatomie County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at Jun 16, 2010, 7:56 PM CDT for Pottawatomie County, Kansas. It took effect at Jun 16, 2010, 11:33 PM CDT. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 2010, 7:56 PM CDT (00:56 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 16, 2010, 11:33 PM CDT
Expired: Jun 17, 2010, 10:11 AM CDT
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Flood severity: Minor

County Pottawatomie County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Rock Creek (KS) at Louisville (LISK1).

Action stage: 22 ft
Minor stage: 27 ft
Moderate stage: 33 ft
Major stage: 43 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06888300, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning 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 river flood warning went out at Jun 16, 6:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 6:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
651 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2010

.AVIATION...

FOR THE 00Z TAFS...SUBSIDENCE AND CLEARING WILL PREVAIL BEHIND
AFTERNOON CONVECTION TO START THE PERIOD. WEAK MIDLEVEL WARM
ADVECTION AND PASSING SHORTWAVE TROUGH SPUR ASCENT MAXIMIZED
BETWEEN 07Z AND 10Z. MAY SEE SOME ELEVATED CONVECTION DEVELOP AND
SPREAD ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS DURING THIS TIME FRAME. WITH SOME
QUESTION ON PLACEMENT...WILL MONITOR AND AMEND FOR TS/PRECIP/VIS
OR CIG RESTRICTIONS AS APPROPRIATE. ESE WINDS WILL REMAIN AROUND
5-10KTS OVERNIGHT...AND PICK UP FROM THE SOUTH AFTER SUNRISE
THURSDAY WITH GOOD MIXING AHEAD OF SFC TROUGH EXTENDING THROUGH
EASTERN COLORADO.

LUNDE

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 433 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2010/

DISCUSSION...

WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWS WEAK MID LEVEL SHORTWAVE TROUGH CONTINUING
TO PROPAGATE NORTHEAST ACROSS KS THIS AFTERNOON. EXCELLENT MOISTURE
TRANSPORT AT 850 MB AS WELL AS GOOD 700 MB THETA-E ADVECTION
OCCURRING OUT AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM AND HELPING TO FUEL SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST AND EC KS. REDEVELOPMENT OF
THUNDERSTORMS TO NORTH OF OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM INITIAL
THUNDERSTORMS CREATED SOME TRAINING THAT WILL CONTINUE INTO THE
EVENING HOURS. SUBSIDENCE BEHIND WAVE SHOULD DRY THINGS OUT LATER
TONIGHT AND MAY KEEP CONVECTION AT BAY ON THURSDAY.

MODELS THEN BRING A TRAILING FRONT FROM NORTHERN PLAINS SURFACE
LOW TO FAR NORTHERN KS ABOUT THURSDAY NIGHT. THIS WILL RESULT IN
A SMALL CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THAT AREA...WITH BEST LIFT WELL
NORTH. BOUNDARY THEN REMAINS NEAR KS/NEBRASKA BORDER FOR A
CONSIDERABLE PERIOD OF TIME. PATTERN IS FAVORABLE FOR THE
DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERAL MCS AS WEAK DISTURBANCES MOVE THROUGH IN
WNWLY FLOW ALOFT. WHILE THERE WILL OBVIOUSLY BE PERIODS OF DRY
WEATHER THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK...IT IS CHALLENGING TO PICK THESE
OUT. HAVE GONE WITH HIGHEST POPS ALONG KS/NEBRASKA BORDER WITH
BEST CHANCES OF MORE EXTENSIVE DRY WEATHER ACROSS THE EC KS
COUNTIES.

&&

.TOP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE.

&&

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 7:41 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 16, 7:00 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
700 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0540 PM     HEAVY RAIN       TOPEKA                  39.05N 95.68W
06/16/2010  M2.78 INCH       SHAWNEE            KS   OFFICIAL NWS OBS

&&

BYRNE

Local storm report, Jun 16, 7:04 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
704 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0702 PM     HEAVY RAIN       TOPEKA                  39.05N 95.68W
06/16/2010  M3.09 INCH       SHAWNEE            KS   OFFICIAL NWS OBS

            MEASURED IN 8 INCH RAIN GAUGE AT BILLARD ARPT.

&&

BYRNE

Local storm report, Jun 16, 7:29 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
729 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0415 PM     TSTM WND DMG     TOPEKA                  39.05N 95.68W
06/16/2010                   SHAWNEE            KS   NWS EMPLOYEE

            8 INCH TREE REPORTED DOWN ON SARDOU RD.

&&

BYRNE

Local storm report, Jun 16, 7:35 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 7:56 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 7:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson	90 min
Jun 16, 10:57 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Dickinson	26 hr
Jun 16, 11:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Riley	6 hr
Jun 17, 12:22 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	6 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2010 Every river flood warning in 2010

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.