Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Sep 13, 2016, 11:09 PM CDT for Brown County, Nemaha County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr. 2 reports 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
- Sep 13, 2016, 11:09 PM CDT (04:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2016, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Brown County, KS, Nemaha County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 11:15 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 3 N Centralia, KS | K187 HIGHWAY WAS BRIEFLY CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER. |
| Sep 14, 1:42 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Hiawatha, KS | SEVERAL RURAL ROADS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 583 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 352 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted.
274
WGUS53 KTOP 140409
FFWTOP
KSC013-131-140800-
/O.NEW.KTOP.FF.W.0036.160914T0409Z-160914T0800Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1109 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
BROWN COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN KANSAS...
NEMAHA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN KANSAS...
* UNTIL 300 AM CDT
* AT 1107 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
ALREADY FALLEN IN PARTS OF THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS
EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY OR WAS OCCURRING.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
HIAWATHA...SABETHA...SENECA...HORTON...CENTRALIA...EVEREST...
FAIRVIEW...ROBINSON...MORRILL...BERN...CORNING...GOFF...RESERVE...
POWHATTAN...ONEIDA...HAMLIN...WILLIS...KICKAPOO RESERVATION...
BAILEYVILLE AND WOODLAWN.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.
&&
LAT...LON 3966 9534 3966 9624 3993 9623 4000 9590
4000 9534
$$1 follow-up statement
264
WGUS73 KTOP 140645
FFSTOP
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
145 AM CDT WED SEP 14 2016
KSC013-131-140800-
/O.CON.KTOP.FF.W.0036.000000T0000Z-160914T0800Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BROWN-NEMAHA-
145 AM CDT WED SEP 14 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM CDT FOR
BROWN AND NEMAHA COUNTIES...
AT 141 AM CDT...THE PUBLIC AND LAW ENFORCEMENT HAVE REPORTED FLASH
FLOODING WITH SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS CLOSED. AS MUCH AS 4 INCHES OF
RAIN HAVE FALLEN...AND ANOTHER ROUND OF HEAVY RAINFALL IS MOVING IN.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
HIAWATHA...SABETHA...SENECA...HORTON...CENTRALIA...EVEREST...
FAIRVIEW...ROBINSON...MORRILL...BERN...CORNING...GOFF...RESERVE...
POWHATTAN...ONEIDA...HAMLIN...WILLIS...KICKAPOO RESERVATION...
BAILEYVILLE AND WOODLAWN.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 3966 9534 3966 9624 3993 9623 4000 9590
4000 9534
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 7:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 3 hr |
| Sep 13, 7:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Douglas | 35 min |
| Sep 13, 7:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Douglas | 34 min |
| Sep 14, 2:16 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall | 6 hr |
| Sep 14, 2:21 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 12 hr |
| Sep 14, 2:36 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson, Nemaha | 14 hr |
| Sep 14, 5:47 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall | 23 hr |
| Sep 14, 6:21 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 5 hr |
| Sep 14, 12:42 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 27 hr |
| Sep 14, 2:16 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 5 hr |
| Sep 14, 4:27 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson, Nemaha | 8 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.