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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Topeka, KS

June 9, 2014Pottawatomie County, Riley County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 2014, 10:05 PM CDT for Pottawatomie County, Riley 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 9, 2014, 10:05 PM CDT (03:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2014, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:06 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 9, 10:15 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	W Manhattan, KS	RILEY COUNTY EOC WAS ACTIVATED FOR MODERATE FLOODING ALONG WILDCAT CREEK. FLOODING SIRENS WERE SOUNDED AND DOOR-TO-DOOR EVACUATIONS WERE DONE AS RUSHING WATER HAD THE POTENTIAL TO FLOOD NEARBY HOMES. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR. DELAYED REPORT.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 87 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: 96 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 454 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

502 
WGUS53 KTOP 100305
FFWTOP
KSC149-161-100700-
/O.NEW.KTOP.FF.W.0004.140610T0305Z-140610T0700Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1005 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS...
  SOUTHERN RILEY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS...

* UNTIL 200 AM CDT

* AT 1000 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED  
  2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA. PUBLIC HAS ALSO        
  REPORTED FLOODING OF STOCKDALE CREEK...AND STREAM GAGES INDICATE   
  THAT WILDCAT CREEK IS RISING QUICKLY.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MANHATTAN...
  KEATS...
  RILEY...
  ST. GEORGE...

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.

&&

LAT...LON 3936 9636 3917 9634 3917 9636 3917 9638
      3917 9639 3917 9651 3915 9685 3921 9685
      3922 9691 3930 9696 3935 9696 3937 9662

$$

BARJENBRUCH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 7:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Geary, Morris, Wabaunsee	3 hr
Jun 9, 9:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Geary, Morris, Wabaunsee	6 hr
Jun 9, 9:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson, Osage, Shawnee	3 hr
Jun 9, 10:19 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Geary	15 hr
Jun 9, 10:19 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	15 hr
Jun 9, 10:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson, Osage, Shawnee	6 hr
Jun 9, 10:31 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Riley	6 days
Jun 9, 10:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Lyon, Morris	3 hr
Jun 10, 2:38 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Shawnee	6 days
Jun 10, 5:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Lyon, Osage	15 hr
Jun 10, 5:53 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Dickinson	30 hr

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.