7 flash flood, 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 1, 3:05 PM CST, 4 hours 52 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 405 PM CDT SAT OCT 1 2005 .DISCUSSION... SHORT TERM CONCERNS CONTINUE TO BE EXTENT PRECIPITATION ACROSS EJECTING UPPER LOW OVER CENTRAL KANSAS TONIGHT INTO EARLY SUNDAY AND TEMPERATURE TRENDS TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. PROFILER WINDS AND LATEST RUC WOULD HAVE UPPER LOW CENTERED BETWEEN RUSSELL AND SALINA AT 19Z. SURFACE PATTERN HAS TROUGH OVER THE HIGH PLAINS WITH SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST FLOW OF 10 TO 20 MPH OVER MUCH OF CWA. IN THE SYNOPTIC LIFT AHEAD OF LOW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN ON THE INCREASE SINCE THE NOON HOUR AND HAS SPREAD NORTH OF I70 JUST AFTER 3 PM. MORE FREQUENT LIGHTING STRIKES GENERALLY OVER THE EAST CENTRAL COUNTIES WHILE NORTH CENTRAL CWA MAINLY CLOUD. TEMPERATURES GENERALLY FROM THE UPPER 60S TO LOWER 70S NORTH...WHILE SHOWERS AND CLOUD COVER HOLDING READINGS IN THE MIDDLE 60S PARTS OF THE EAST CENTRAL. DEWPOINTS GENERALLY AROUND 60. MODELS SHOWING MAIN LIFT ACROSS EASTERN PORTIONS OF CWA THROUGH MIDNIGHT AND HAVE KEPT CATEGORICAL WORDING ON PRECIP IN THESE AREAS. STILL HANGING ON TO SOME CHANCE POPS OVER THE NORTH CENTRAL WITH UPPER LOW IN VICINITY. AFTER MIDNIGHT EXPECT PRECIPITATION CHANCES TO BEGIN DROPPING OFF...ALTHOUGH WILL KEEP SOME LOW PRECIPITATION CHANCE THROUGH THE MID MORNING FAR EASTERN COUNTIES ON SUNDAY. WITH SOUTHEAST WINDS OVERNIGHT...EXPECT LOWS REMAIN MAINLY IN THE MIDDLE 60S WHICH WOULD HAVE THE EAST CENTRAL COUNTIES HOLDING STEADY. BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS ON THE INCREASE AFTER MIDNIGHT. SOME CONCERN ON HOW LONG LOW STRATUS WILL LINGER. SOME FOG POTENTIAL FOR AREAS THAT GET THE RAIN AND WINDS STAY DOWN. ON SUNDAY...EXPECT PRECIP TO EXIT MID TO LATE MORNING FAR EASTERN COUNTIES. FOCUS THEN SHIFTS ON HOW WINDY AND WARM TO MAKE IT. ALL MODELS HAVE BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS IN THE 35 KT RANGE BETWEEN 18Z-00Z. H850 MB IN SIMILAR RANGE. GENERALLY WENT WITH 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 30 TO 35 MPH BY AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES RANGING FROM THE MIDDLE 80S WHERE CLOUDS MAY LINGER OVER THE EAST TO UPPER 80S WEST WITH MORE SUNSHINE. SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...THE INTENSE 5H TROUGH OVER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST WILL MOVE EAST INTO THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS ON TUESDAY. AHEAD OF THE 5H TROUGH...SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL INCREASE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL PLAINS CAUSING THE LEE SFC TROUGH TO DEEPEN. AS THE LEE SFC TROUGH DEEPENS SOUTHERLY WINDS ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS WILL ADVECT DEEPER GULF MOISTURE NORTH ACROSS THE CWA MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT. IT WILL CONTINUE TO BE WARM ON MONDAY WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 80S TO LOWER 90S ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST COUNTIES. THE LLJ SHOULD INCREASE OVER 40KTS MONDAY NIGHT...AND THERE MAY BE ENOUGH ISENTROPIC LIFT FOR AN ISOLATED ELEVATED THUNDERSTORM ACROSS THE CWA LATE MONDAY NIGHT...THOUGH AT THIS TIME I WILL ONLY KEEP POPS AT 14 PERCENT. THE 5H TROUGH WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PLAINS TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LOW-LEVEL CAA ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE 5H TROUGH AXIS WILL A COLD FRONT SOUTH INTO THE NORTHWEST COUNTIES OF THE CWA LATE TUESDAY. THE NAM IS ABOUT 3 HOURS FASTER WITH FROPA THAN THE GFS...AT THIS TIME IM LEANING MORE WITH NAM. THEREFORE I INCREASED THE CHANCE POP COVERAGE ACROSS THE NORTHERN...WESTERN AND CENTRAL COUNTIES OF THE CWA FOR TUESDAY AFTERNOON...AND PLACED 20 POPS IN FOR ALL BUT THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST COUNTIES TUESDAY AFTERNOON. SFC CONVERGENCE ALONG THE FRONT COMBINED WITH SYNOPTIC SCALE LIFT AHEAD OF THE 5H TROUGH AXIS WILL CAUSE A LINE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. GIVEN 40-50 KTS OF SOUTHWEST FLOW AT 500MB...AND BACKED SFC WINDS ALONG WITH DEEP MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY WITHIN THE WARM SECTOR THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE CWA TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HIGH TEMPERATURES TUESDAY WILL WARM INTO THE MID 80S AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT...MAY BE LOWER 80S FOR THE NORTHWEST COUNTIES...ESPECIALLY IF THE FRONT IS A BIT FASTER. WAA/ISENTROPIC LIFT BEHIND THE FRONT WILL CAUSE POST FRONTAL RAIN AND CONVECTION THROUGH MOST OF TUESDAY NIGHT. THE FRONT SHOULD MOVE WELL SOUTH OF THE CWA WEDNESDAY MORNING AND THE WAA ZONE NORTH OF THE BOUNDARY SHOULD SHIFT SOUTHEAST BEFORE NOON. SKIES SHOULD CLEAR FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE CWA DURING THE LATE MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS ON WEDNESDAY. HIGH TEMPERATURES ON WEDNESDAY WILL BE COOLER WITH HIGHS STRUGGLING INTO THE MID TO UPPER 60S...THOUGH READINGS MAY BE COOLER IF THE CLOUDS LINGER. WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...A BROAD SURFACE RIDGE WILL BUILD SOUTH ACROSS THE REGION AND SLOWLY DRIFT EAST BY THE WEEKEND. THUS DRY CONDITIONS WITH TEMPERATURES NEAR SEASONAL NORMS ARE EXPECTED. LIGHT WINDS AND CLEAR SKIES WEDNESDAY NIGHT WILL CAUSE OVERNIGHT LOWS TO DROP INTO THE MID 30S ACROSS THE NORTHWEST COUNTIES...AND THERE MAY BE SOME PATCHY FROST DEVELOPING NORTH OF A MINNEAPOLIS...TO MANHATTAN...TO SENECA LINE EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. A 5H RIDGE OVER THE WESTERN CONUS WILL SLOWLY MOVE EAST INTO THE PLAINS BY NEXT WEEKEND. AFTER A COOL EARLY MORNING START...TEMPERATURES WILL ONLY WARM INTO THE UPPER 60S TO AROUND 70 ON THURSDAY WITH SUNNY SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS. AS THE SFC RIDGE SLOWLY MOVES EAST...THE SURFACE WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE SOUTH BY NEXT SATURDAY CAUSING TEMPERATURES TO WARM INTO THE MID 70S. && .TOP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && PF/WG
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 358 PM CDT SAT OCT 1 2005 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-022100- REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 358 PM CDT SAT OCT 1 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT...GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. THE PRIMARY HAZARD FROM ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 48 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:57 UTC.
7 flash flood, 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A spotter reported Halfday Creek was out of it's banks and water was rushing at least 6 inches deep over several roads including 50th St.
Muddy Creek flooding Highway 75 a foot deep in several places.
Officials closing several roads in the Meriden area due to flash flooding and deep water over the roads.
Water rushing over the road as deep as mailboxes in the 3800 block of Tecumseh Rd.
Highway 24 under at least 6 inches of fast flowing water.
Damage to a couple of houses.
Highway 16 closed near Denison as well as between Birmingham and Holton due to deep fast flowing water over the road. Many other county roads also closed due to fast flowing deep water.
Highway 16 flooded with deep fast flowing water northwest of Valley Falls. Other roads over the county flooded as well including Highways 92 and 59.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, October 2005
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5476975, 5476976, 5476977, 5476861, 5476863, 5476978, 5476862, 5476864, 5476865, 5476979, 5476866, 5476867, 5476868, 5476980, 5476981.