Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2013
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 2013, 7:39 PM CDT for Brown County, Nemaha 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
- May 28, 2013, 7:39 PM CDT (00:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2013, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Brown County, KS, Nemaha County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 7:45 PM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 5.5 | 6 Ese Seneca, KS | RAINFALL AS OF 745 PM THAT FELL TODAY |
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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 2641 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 764 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 14.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
521
WGUS53 KTOP 290039
FFWTOP
KSC013-131-290430-
/O.NEW.KTOP.FF.W.0007.130529T0039Z-130529T0430Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
739 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
WEST CENTRAL BROWN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS...
CENTRAL NEMAHA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS...
* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT
* AT 733 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC HAS REPORTED WIDESPREAD FLOODING
OCCURRING ACROSS MUCH OF THIS AREA SINCE 6 PM. RADAR ESTIMATES
THAT AS MUCH AS 9 INCHES OF RAIN MAY HAVE FALLEN IN THE WOODLAWN
AREA. ALTHOUGH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE DECREASED IN THE
AREA OVER THE PAST HOUR...RUNOFF FROM EARLIER RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO
PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING THROUGH THE LATE EVENING.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CORNING...
FAIRVIEW...
GOFF...
WOODLAWN...
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.
DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SEVERE WEATHER.
&&
LAT...LON 3980 9613 3985 9598 3990 9573 3969 9571
3964 9612
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 24 min |
| May 28, 7:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Brown, Marshall, Nemaha, Washington | 4 hr |
| May 28, 7:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Brown | 4 hr |
| May 28, 7:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Nemaha | 31 min |
| May 28, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 25 min |
| May 28, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 37 min |
| May 28, 8:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Nemaha | 36 min |
| May 28, 8:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Marshall | 30 min |
| May 28, 8:55 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall | 60 hr |
| May 28, 9:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Brown, Jackson | 29 min |
| May 28, 10:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Brown, Marshall, Nemaha | 4 hr |
| May 28, 10:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson, Nemaha | 4 hr |
| May 29, 2:17 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha | 8 hr |
| May 29, 10:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Ottawa | 37 min |
| May 29, 11:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Cloud | 22 min |
| May 29, 12:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Marshall | 33 min |
| May 29, 12:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | TOP | Anderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more | 25 hr |
| May 29, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Ottawa | 44 min |
| May 29, 4:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 4 hr |
| May 29, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Ottawa, Republic, Washington | 50 min |
| May 29, 5:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Clay, Riley | 29 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.