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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 23, 2012, 5:05 AM CDT for Republic County, Washington 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 23, 2012, 5:05 AM CDT (10:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2012, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Republic County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:05 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2184 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
645 WGUS53 KTOP 231005 FFWTOP KSC157-201-231400- /O.NEW.KTOP.FF.W.0003.120623T1005Z-120623T1400Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 505 AM CDT SAT JUN 23 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN REPUBLIC COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... WESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 900 AM CDT * AT 500 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA...WITH OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN ESTIMATED THUS FAR. ANOTHER ONE HALF INCH OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT HOUR. RUNOFF ALONG AND NEAR MILL CREEK WILL BE AT GREATEST RISK OF FLOODING. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CUBA... HADDAM... MAHASKA... MUNDEN... NARKA... 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 3998 9760 4000 9717 3966 9721 3976 9759 $$ BLAIR
1 follow-up statement
743 WGUS73 KTOP 231358 FFSTOP FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 858 AM CDT SAT JUN 23 2012 KSC157-201-231408- /O.EXP.KTOP.FF.W.0003.000000T0000Z-120623T1400Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON- 858 AM CDT SAT JUN 23 2012 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 900 AM CDT FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON AND EASTERN REPUBLIC COUNTIES... AT 858 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED...AND THE POSSIBILITY FOR FLASH FLOODING WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE. THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. AT 858 AM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS THAT THE FLASH FLOODING IS NO LONGER OCCURRING AND RUNOFF FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO RECEDE. THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. LAT...LON 3998 9760 4000 9717 3966 9721 3976 9759 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 4:17 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Republic, Washington | 58 min |
| Jun 23, 10:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 29 min |
| Jun 23, 11:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Jackson | 29 min |
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.