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Areal Flood Warning 9, NWS Topeka, KS

June 2, 20114 counties in Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this areal flood warning at Jun 2, 2011, 4:36 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 2011, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2011, 9:19 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Shawnee County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 34 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1477 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 786 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal 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 areal flood warning went out at Jun 2, 3:38 PM CDT, 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:38 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 3:43 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 2, 1:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 1:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 2:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 2:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 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 1, 7:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Cloud, Republic, Washington	41 min
Jun 1, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	47 min
Jun 1, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Pottawatomie, Riley	47 min
Jun 1, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Republic, Washington	46 min
Jun 1, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	46 min
Jun 1, 8:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Wabaunsee	28 min
Jun 1, 8:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Republic, Washington	25 min
Jun 1, 8:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Cloud, Republic	3 hr
Jun 1, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	21 min
Jun 1, 8:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Dickinson	34 min
Jun 1, 9:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Republic, Washington	3 hr
Jun 1, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	56 min
Jun 1, 9:26 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Riley	24 hr
Jun 1, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Republic, Washington	39 min
Jun 1, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	29 min
Jun 1, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Ottawa	38 min
Jun 1, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	63 min
Jun 1, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Riley, Washington	47 min
Jun 1, 10:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Clay	36 min
Jun 1, 10:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Riley, Washington	4 hr
Jun 1, 11:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Ottawa	4 hr
Jun 1, 11:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Ottawa	50 min
Jun 1, 11:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Cloud, Republic	2 hr
Jun 1, 11:17 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud	22 hr
Jun 1, 11:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley	6 hr
Jun 1, 11:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	65 min
Jun 1, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	54 min
Jun 1, 11:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Riley	49 min
Jun 2, 12:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley	23 min
Jun 2, 12:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Cloud, Republic	6 hr
Jun 2, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	48 min
Jun 2, 12:48 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Geary, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	117 min
Jun 2, 1:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jackson	42 min
Jun 2, 1:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Cloud, Ottawa	6 hr
Jun 2, 1:24 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Ottawa	6 days
Jun 2, 1:24 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Clay	5 days
Jun 2, 1:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud	22 min
Jun 2, 2:19 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Cloud	4 days
Jun 2, 3:07 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Dickinson	56 hr
Jun 2, 3:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley	4 hr
Jun 2, 5:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley	4 hr
Jun 2, 5:53 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Shawnee	24 hr
Jun 2, 5:53 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	24 hr
Jun 2, 6:06 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Ottawa	39 hr
Jun 2, 6:06 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Ottawa, Saline	6 days
Jun 2, 6:46 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Cloud, Ottawa, Republic	4 hr
Jun 2, 7:05 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley	115 min
Jun 2, 7:26 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Jackson, Shawnee	14 hr
Jun 2, 7:31 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Washington	6 hr
Jun 2, 7:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Cloud	24 hr
Jun 2, 7:42 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	27 hr
Jun 2, 8:44 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	13 hr
Jun 2, 8:59 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley	6 hr
Jun 2, 9:29 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Marshall, Ottawa and 4 more	12 hr
Jun 2, 10:19 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Ottawa, Saline	4 days
Jun 2, 10:19 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson	33 hr
Jun 2, 11:06 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Jackson, Jefferson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee	6 hr
Jun 2, 11:11 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson	36 hr
Jun 2, 11:11 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee	18 hr
Jun 2, 12:47 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee	9 hr
Jun 2, 2:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley	6 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2011 Every areal flood warning in 2011

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.