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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 2011, 12:13 AM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 90 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2011, 12:13 AM CDT (05:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2011, 1:43 AM CDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Geary County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Morris County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:16 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 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -474 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
206
WGUS53 KTOP 080513
FFWTOP
KSC061-111-127-197-080715-
/O.NEW.KTOP.FF.W.0018.110808T0513Z-110808T0715Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1213 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN GEARY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...
NORTHERN LYON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...
NORTHEASTERN MORRIS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTHERN WABAUNSEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 215 AM CDT
* AT 1206 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. EXPECT THE
HEAVY RAIN TO PERSIST OVER THE AREA FOR A PROLONGED PERIOD OF TIME
WITH BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ADMIRE...
ALLEN...
ALTA VISTA...
BUSHONG...
COUNCIL GROVE...
DWIGHT...
ESKRIDGE...
THIS INCLUDES THE KANSAS TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 146 AND 155.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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 3891 9681 3891 9612 3878 9599 3875 9594
3864 9595 3863 9651
$$
LEIGHTON1 follow-up statement
807
WGUS73 KTOP 080643
FFSTOP
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
143 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2011
KSC061-111-127-197-080653-
/O.CAN.KTOP.FF.W.0018.000000T0000Z-110808T0715Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
MORRIS-LYON-GEARY-WABAUNSEE-
143 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2011
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTHERN
WABAUNSEE...SOUTHEASTERN GEARY...NORTHERN LYON AND NORTHEASTERN
MORRIS COUNTIES...
THIS INCLUDES THE KANSAS TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 146 AND 155.
AT 143 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE
HEAVY RAIN HAS SUBSIDED...AND THE POSSIBILITY FOR FLASH FLOODING
WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE. THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS NO
LONGER IN EFFECT.
LAT...LON 3891 9681 3891 9612 3878 9599 3875 9594
3864 9595 3863 9651
$$
LEIGHTONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 10:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Geary | 36 min |
| Aug 7, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley | 49 min |
| Aug 7, 10:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Ottawa | 29 min |
| Aug 7, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Ottawa | 48 min |
| Aug 7, 10:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ottawa | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage, Wabaunsee | 51 min |
| Aug 7, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Wabaunsee | 26 min |
| Aug 7, 11:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Riley, Wabaunsee | 114 min |
| Aug 7, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Morris | 42 min |
| Aug 7, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Morris, Riley, Wabaunsee | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 48 min |
| Aug 7, 11:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 114 min |
| Aug 8, 12:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage, Wabaunsee | 33 min |
| Aug 8, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, Osage | 54 min |
| Aug 8, 1:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Republic | 36 min |
| Aug 8, 1:58 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Republic, Washington | 62 min |
| Aug 8, 4:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Republic | 36 min |
| Aug 8, 4:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic, Washington | 29 min |
| Aug 8, 5:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Washington | 36 min |
| Aug 8, 5:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Pottawatomie | 34 min |
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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.