Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 27, 2016, 7:29 PM CDT for Marshall 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
- May 27, 2016, 7:29 PM CDT (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2016, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Marshall County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 807 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 854 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted.
782 WGUS53 KTOP 280029 FFWTOP KSC117-280430- /O.NEW.KTOP.FF.W.0025.160528T0029Z-160528T0430Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 729 PM CDT FRI MAY 27 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN MARSHALL COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN KANSAS... * UNTIL 1130 PM CDT * AT 727 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN ON SATURATED GROUND AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF UP TO AN INCH IS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... MARYSVILLE...WATERVILLE AND BREMEN. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. && LAT...LON 3996 9652 3972 9653 3966 9681 3995 9680 $$
1 follow-up statement
116 WGUS73 KTOP 280413 FFSTOP FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1113 PM CDT FRI MAY 27 2016 KSC117-280421- /O.CAN.KTOP.FF.W.0025.000000T0000Z-160528T0430Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ MARSHALL- 1113 PM CDT FRI MAY 27 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN MARSHALL COUNTY IS CANCELLED... AT 1110 PM....EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED ANY HIGH WATER FROM EARLIER FLASH FLOODING HAS RECEDED. LAT...LON 3996 9652 3972 9653 3966 9681 3995 9680 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Republic | 35 min |
| May 27, 9:41 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Riley | 28 hr |
| May 27, 10:25 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Geary | 18 hr |
| May 28, 12:41 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Washington | 19 hr |
| May 28, 3:56 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Cloud | 43 hr |
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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.