Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2011
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2011, 11:04 PM CDT for Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2011, 11:04 PM CDT (04:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2011, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Ottawa County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:06 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 1:00 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 4 Sse Minneapolis, KS | NUMEROUS COUNTY ROADS WERE IMPASSABLE OVERNIGHT DUE TO HIGH WATER. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 1634 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 780 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 10.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
298 WGUS53 KTOP 020404 FFWTOP KSC143-020800- /O.NEW.KTOP.FF.W.0008.110602T0404Z-110602T0800Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1104 PM CDT WED JUN 1 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN OTTAWA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 300 AM CDT * AT 1057 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FALLING FROM THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EASTWARD OVER THE WARNED AREA. IN ADDITION...VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY...AND IS EXPECTED TO FLOW EASTWARD INTO SOUTHERN OTTAWA COUNTY. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BENNINGTON... CULVER... MINNEAPOLIS... TESCOTT... WELLS... NILES... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. 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 3915 9793 3914 9737 3896 9738 3895 9793 $$
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, 11:10 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 |
| Jun 2, 4:36 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee | 5 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.