Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 28, 2016, 11:55 PM CDT for Republic County, Washington County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 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 28, 2016, 11:55 PM CDT (04:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2016, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 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 04:55 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 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 1611 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1337 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted.
274
WGUS53 KTOP 290455
FFWTOP
KSC157-201-291100-
/O.NEW.KTOP.FF.W.0032.160829T0455Z-160829T1100Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1155 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
NORTHEASTERN REPUBLIC COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 600 AM CDT MONDAY
* AT 1152 PM CDT...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED CREEKS
BETWEEN HADDAM AND MAHASKA WHERE BANKFULL AND ABOUT TO COME OUT OF
THEIR BANKS. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE
WARNED AREA...WITH AS MUCH AS 8 INCHES HAVING FALLEN. FLASH
FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
WASHINGTON...MORROWVILLE...HADDAM...NARKA...
MAHASKA AND HOLLENBERG.
THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS TWO WARNINGS FOR WASHINGTON AND
REPUBLIC COUNTIES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 3994 9689 3985 9694 3979 9704 3982 9724
3981 9737 3984 9750 4000 9750 4000 9699
$$1 follow-up statement
219
WGUS73 KTOP 290808
FFSTOP
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
308 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2016
KSC157-201-291100-
/O.CON.KTOP.FF.W.0032.000000T0000Z-160829T1100Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
WASHINGTON-REPUBLIC-
308 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CDT FOR
NORTHERN WASHINGTON AND NORTHEASTERN REPUBLIC COUNTIES...
AT 305 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THREE TO SEVEN INCHES OF
RAIN HAVE FALLEN SUNDAY EVENING IN PORTIONS OF NORTHEASTERN REPUBLIC
AND NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTIES.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
WASHINGTON...MORROWVILLE...HADDAM...NARKA...MAHASKA AND HOLLENBERG.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 3994 9689 3985 9694 3979 9704 3982 9724
3981 9737 3984 9750 4000 9750 4000 9699
$$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 29, 5:56 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Republic, Washington | 4 hr |
| Aug 29, 10:26 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Republic, Washington | 2 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 |
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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.