Alert archive / Kansas / Areal Flood Warnings in 2016
Areal Flood Warning 21, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this areal flood warning at Aug 29, 2016, 10:26 AM CDT for Republic County, Washington County, Kansas. It was in force for 2 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
- Aug 29, 2016, 10:26 AM CDT (15:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2016, 12:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 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), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:29 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 (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 285 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1345 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
942 WGUS43 KTOP 291526 FLWTOP BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1026 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2016 KSC157-201-291730- /O.NEW.KTOP.FA.W.0021.160829T1526Z-160829T1730Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ WASHINGTON-REPUBLIC- 1026 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... NORTHEASTERN REPUBLIC COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 1230 PM CDT * DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THREE TO SEVEN INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN SUNDAY EVENING IN PORTIONS OF NORTHEASTERN REPUBLIC AND NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTIES. FLOODING IS LIKELY TO CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... WASHINGTON...MORROWVILLE...HADDAM...NARKA... MAHASKA AND HOLLENBERG. LAT...LON 4000 9685 3977 9696 3982 9750 4000 9752 $$ SANDERS
1 follow-up statement
845 WGUS83 KTOP 291721 FLSTOP FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1221 PM CDT MON AUG 29 2016 KSC157-201-291730- /O.EXP.KTOP.FA.W.0021.000000T0000Z-160829T1730Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ WASHINGTON-REPUBLIC- 1221 PM CDT MON AUG 29 2016 ...THE FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 1230 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN WASHINGTON AND NORTHEASTERN REPUBLIC COUNTIES... FLOOD WATERS HAVE RECEDED...AND ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ANY ROAD CLOSURES. LAT...LON 4000 9685 3977 9696 3982 9750 4000 9752 $$ SANDERS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 8:11 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 94 min |
| Aug 28, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic, Washington | 17 min |
| Aug 28, 8:51 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Washington | 114 min |
| Aug 28, 9:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Washington | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 10:34 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Washington | 34 hr |
| Aug 28, 10:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Republic | 119 min |
| Aug 28, 11:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Republic, Washington | 6 hr |
| Aug 29, 5:56 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Republic, Washington | 4 hr |
| Aug 29, 11:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | TOP | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson and 7 more | 36 hr |
| Aug 29, 2:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Clay | 22 min |
| Aug 29, 2:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Republic | 34 min |
| Aug 29, 3:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Ottawa | 27 min |
| Aug 29, 4:56 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 2 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.