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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Topeka, KS

May 26, 20165 counties in Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 2016, 2:48 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 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 26, 2016, 2:48 PM CDT (19:48 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2016, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Clay County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Geary County, KS, Morris County, KS, Riley County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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 26, 7:18 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Herington, KS	WATER OVER HIGHWAY K4 FOR ABOUT ONE-QUARTER TO ONE-HALF MILE OF THE ROAD, JUST NORTH OF HERINGTON.

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 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 1730 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -118 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 756 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 285 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 10.9

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The text

As transmitted.

574 
WGUS53 KTOP 261948
FFWTOP
KSC027-041-061-127-161-262245-
/O.NEW.KTOP.FF.W.0015.160526T1948Z-160526T2245Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
248 PM CDT THU MAY 26 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN MORRIS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...
  GEARY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...
  SOUTHEASTERN CLAY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  SOUTHWESTERN RILEY COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN KANSAS...
  CENTRAL DICKINSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 247 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO
  BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  SOUTHWESTERN MANHATTAN...JUNCTION CITY...HERINGTON...OGDEN...GRANDVIEW
  PLAZA...CHAPMAN...ENTERPRISE...WHITE CITY...MILFORD...HOPE...WOODBINE...
  LATIMER...MILFORD LAKE...MOONLIGHT AND BURDICK.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 280 AND 308.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS
WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLAND...AND OTHER LOW LYING
SPOTS.

&&

LAT...LON 3861 9693 3861 9726 3862 9730 3928 9697
      3913 9662 3852 9685 3852 9693

$$

1 follow-up statement

394 
WGUS53 KTOP 262239
FFWTOP
KSC027-041-061-127-161-270245-
/O.EXT.KTOP.FF.W.0015.000000T0000Z-160527T0245Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
539 PM CDT THU MAY 26 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS EXTENDED THE

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN MORRIS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...
  GEARY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...
  SOUTHEASTERN CLAY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  SOUTHWESTERN RILEY COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN KANSAS...
  CENTRAL DICKINSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 538 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN
  HAVE ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING MAY BE ALREADY OCCURRING.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  SOUTHWESTERN MANHATTAN...JUNCTION CITY...HERINGTON...OGDEN...GRANDVIEW
  PLAZA...CHAPMAN...ENTERPRISE...WHITE CITY...MILFORD...HOPE...WOODBINE...
  LATIMER...MILFORD LAKE...MOONLIGHT AND BURDICK.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 280 AND 308.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS
WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLAND...AND OTHER LOW LYING
SPOTS.

&&

LAT...LON 3861 9693 3861 9726 3862 9730 3928 9697
      3913 9662 3852 9685 3852 9693

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 7:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Ottawa	27 min
May 25, 7:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	TOP	Dickinson	32 min
May 25, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Ottawa	50 min
May 25, 7:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedConsiderable damage threat	TOP	Dickinson	38 min
May 25, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	36 min
May 25, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay	21 min
May 25, 8:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	TOP	Dickinson, Geary	33 min
May 25, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Geary	24 min
May 25, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Morris	43 min
May 25, 9:07 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Dickinson	3 days
May 25, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Morris, Wabaunsee	36 min
May 25, 9:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Morris, Wabaunsee	33 min
May 25, 10:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	36 min
May 25, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary	48 min
May 25, 10:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	TOP	Osage, Wabaunsee	32 min
May 25, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown	43 min
May 25, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Osage, Wabaunsee	40 min
May 25, 11:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Douglas	23 min
May 26, 2:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson	34 min
May 26, 3:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jefferson	25 min
May 26, 8:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson	23 min
May 26, 8:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jefferson	31 min
May 26, 9:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jefferson	33 min
May 26, 9:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jefferson	30 min
May 26, 9:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jefferson	10 min
May 26, 1:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Pottawatomie	25 min
May 26, 1:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	TOP	Anderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more	38 hr
May 26, 1:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	51 min
May 26, 1:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Shawnee	25 min
May 26, 2:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	30 min
May 26, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Riley	51 min
May 26, 2:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee	46 min
May 26, 2:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TOP	Pottawatomie	31 min
May 26, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown	41 min
May 26, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Washington	11 min
May 26, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie	34 min
May 26, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Pottawatomie	42 min
May 26, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jefferson	38 min
May 26, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	48 min
May 26, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Morris, Riley, Wabaunsee	32 min
May 26, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Morris, Wabaunsee	52 min
May 26, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Nemaha	51 min
May 26, 3:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Jefferson	3 hr
May 26, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	36 min
May 26, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Wabaunsee	26 min
May 26, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Osage, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	29 min
May 26, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Nemaha	25 min
May 26, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee	25 min
May 26, 4:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Brown, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Riley and 2 more	9 hr
May 26, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee	51 min
May 26, 4:49 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	48 hr
May 26, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	45 min
May 26, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Wabaunsee	38 min
May 26, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Osage	22 min
May 26, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Morris	37 min
May 26, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Morris, Wabaunsee	37 min
May 26, 6:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Jefferson	4 hr
May 26, 6:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Douglas	4 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.