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Areal Flood Warning 113, NWS Topeka, KS

August 30, 2019Franklin County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this areal flood warning at Aug 30, 2019, 6:12 PM CDT for Franklin 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 30, 2019, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
Expired: Aug 30, 2019, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Franklin County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 227 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1042 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood warning went out at Aug 30, 3:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 3:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 30, 3:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 30, 12:12 PM CDT, 6 hours before

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Local storm report, Aug 30, 12:21 PM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 30, 3:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 30, 5:23 PM CDT, 49 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 29, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud, Republic	48 min
Aug 29, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown	47 min
Aug 29, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud, Ottawa	24 min
Aug 29, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ottawa, Republic, Washington	45 min
Aug 29, 10:14 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Republic	3 hr
Aug 29, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown, Nemaha	30 min
Aug 29, 10:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Brown	3 hr
Aug 29, 10:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha, Washington	25 min
Aug 29, 10:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Clay	34 min
Aug 29, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Ottawa	45 min
Aug 29, 10:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Brown	28 min
Aug 29, 10:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha, Washington	3 hr
Aug 29, 10:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Brown	4 hr
Aug 29, 11:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha, Washington	28 min
Aug 29, 11:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Riley	34 min
Aug 29, 11:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Brown, Jackson	29 min
Aug 29, 11:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha	4 hr
Aug 29, 11:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Pottawatomie	34 min
Aug 29, 11:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Pottawatomie, Shawnee	25 min
Aug 29, 11:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Morris	37 min
Aug 29, 11:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Clay, Geary, Riley	29 min
Aug 29, 11:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee	40 min
Aug 30, 12:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	29 min
Aug 30, 12:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Shawnee	26 min
Aug 30, 12:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Riley	29 min
Aug 30, 12:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Lyon, Morris, Osage, Pottawatomie, Riley and 1 more	38 min
Aug 30, 12:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jefferson	34 min
Aug 30, 12:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee	3 hr
Aug 30, 12:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	3 hr
Aug 30, 12:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Morris	46 min
Aug 30, 12:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Douglas	28 min
Aug 30, 12:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Morris, Wabaunsee	39 min
Aug 30, 1:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Osage	26 min
Aug 30, 1:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	4 hr
Aug 30, 1:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jefferson, Shawnee	27 min
Aug 30, 1:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Coffey, Lyon, Osage	47 min
Aug 30, 1:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Douglas, Franklin, Osage	3 hr
Aug 30, 1:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Coffey, Lyon, Osage	38 min
Aug 30, 1:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Douglas, Franklin, Osage, Shawnee	28 min
Aug 30, 2:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, Osage	41 min
Aug 30, 2:13 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Geary	9 hr
Aug 30, 2:13 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	24 hr
Aug 30, 2:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Riley	4 hr
Aug 30, 2:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Anderson, Franklin	35 min
Aug 30, 3:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Shawnee	23 hr
Aug 30, 3:46 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Marshall	37 hr
Aug 30, 5:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Dickinson	5 hr
Aug 30, 5:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Lyon, Osage	20 hr
Aug 30, 5:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Clay	66 hr
Aug 30, 5:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Ottawa, Saline	3 days
Aug 30, 6:45 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Osage, Shawnee	6 hr
Aug 30, 7:37 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	24 hr
Aug 30, 7:37 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Douglas	18 hr
Aug 30, 9:10 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Franklin	4 hr
Aug 30, 9:43 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	18 hr
Aug 30, 9:43 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Franklin, Osage	8 hr
Aug 30, 10:05 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Osage	15 hr
Aug 30, 10:14 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson	56 hr
Aug 30, 10:14 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson	69 hr
Aug 30, 10:14 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee	11 hr
Aug 30, 10:30 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	39 hr
Aug 30, 12:40 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Osage	9 hr
Aug 30, 1:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Franklin	5 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.