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Flood Watch 2, NWS Topeka, KS

April 30, 2024Anderson County, Coffey County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this flood watch at Apr 30, 2024, 1:32 PM CDT for Anderson County, Coffey County, Kansas. It took effect at Apr 30, 2024, 8:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 23 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 30, 2024, 1:32 PM CDT (18:32 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 30, 2024, 8:00 PM CDT
Expired: Apr 30, 2024, 8:23 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Flood severity: None

Counties Anderson County, KS, Coffey County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 87 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -192 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1578 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 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 flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Apr 30, 12:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 12:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute 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
Apr 30, 3:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Marshall	37 min
Apr 30, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall	28 min
Apr 30, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha	31 min
Apr 30, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Marshall	27 min
Apr 30, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Pottawatomie	23 min
Apr 30, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha	34 min
Apr 30, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Brown, Nemaha	32 min
Apr 30, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	32 min
Apr 30, 4:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha	25 min
Apr 30, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Morris	23 min
Apr 30, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	35 min
Apr 30, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Morris	28 min
Apr 30, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Brown, Marshall, Nemaha	26 min
Apr 30, 4:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha	35 min
Apr 30, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Jackson, Pottawatomie	26 min
Apr 30, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Morris, Wabaunsee	23 min
Apr 30, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee	33 min
Apr 30, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Morris	33 min
Apr 30, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee	38 min
Apr 30, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Lyon, Morris, Wabaunsee	36 min
Apr 30, 5:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Nemaha	32 min
Apr 30, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee	22 min
Apr 30, 5:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Jackson, Nemaha	29 min
Apr 30, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Brown	26 min
Apr 30, 5:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Jackson, Shawnee	26 min
Apr 30, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Morris, Wabaunsee	36 min
Apr 30, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Brown, Jackson	24 min
Apr 30, 6:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee	34 min
Apr 30, 6:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Osage	31 min
Apr 30, 6:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee	44 min
Apr 30, 6:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee	39 min
Apr 30, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	TOP	Douglas, Osage, Shawnee	27 min
Apr 30, 6:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson	33 min

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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.