Heavy flood producing rain and thunderstorms moved over areas that had received extensive flooding the first of the month. Around 4 inches of rain fell in less than three hours.
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The episode as NWS TOP wrote it up.
Heavy flood producing rain and thunderstorms moved over areas that had received extensive flooding the first of the month. Around 4 inches of rain fell in less than three hours.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 30, 2:27 AM CST, 3 hours 57 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 327 AM CDT MON JUL 30 2007 .DISCUSSION... ISENTROPIC LIFT HAS KEPT THUNDERSTORMS NEARLY STATIONARY ACROSS CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS OVERNIGHT. A DEPARTING MCV WAS NOTED OVER CENTRAL MISSOURI WHILE UPSTREAM PROFILERS AND WATER VAPOR IDENTIFY A SHORTWAVE ACROSS NORTHEAST WYOMING INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND ANOTHER WAVE ACROSS MONTANA. SURFACE TROUGH WAS OVER WESTERN KANSAS WITH A LOW CENTERED IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER. PWS REMAIN FAIRLY HIGH ACROSS THE AREAS THIS MORNING ACROSS THE AREA RANGING FROM 1.5 TO 2 INCHES. THETA-E AXIS LINES UP ACROSS CENTRAL INTO SOUTHEAST KANSAS THIS MORNING AND BECOMES MORE NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST ORIENTATION THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT ONGOING CONVECTION TO CONTINUE AND HAVE INCREASED POPS SIGNIFICANTLY THIS MORNING. THIS AFTERNOON THE SHORTWAVES WILL AID IN DEVELOPMENT OF CONVECTION ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS ALSO REGION WILL BE IN THE RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION OF THE UPPER JET...THUS POTENTIAL FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON. HAVE INCREASES PRECIPITATION CHANCES TOWARD THE NEBRASKA BORDER FOR THIS AFTERNOON. WITH AMOUNT OF CLOUDS AND PRECIPITATION EXPECT HAVE LOWERED HIGHS IN THE EAST CENTRAL COUNTIES TO NEAR 80. TONIGHT...MAIN FOCUS WILL AGAIN BE ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS WHERE THE THETA AXIS AND FRONTOGENESIS WILL BE LOCATED ALONG WITH A 20 TO 30 KT LLJ LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE. MID LEVEL SHEAR AXIS WILL BE LOCATED OVER CENTRAL KANSAS AND AREAS WILL STILL BE IN RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION OF THE UPPER JET. THE MID LEVEL FEATURE MENTIONED ABOVE MOVES LITTLE THROUGH WEDNESDAY WITH FOCUS AGAIN ON CENTRAL KANSAS FOR BEST CHANCES OF CONVECTION. EASTERLY FLOW SHOULD BRING IN SOME DRIER AIR FROM THE EAST THUS CONTINUED LOWER POPS ALONG THE EASTERN CWA THROUGH THIS PERIOD. NO CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED. 53 && .AVIATION... SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY CONTINUE TO PERSIST ACROSS CENTRAL INTO EAST CENTRAL KANSAS WITH ISOLATED CONVECTION ELSEWHERE. WITHIN THIS AND ADDITIONAL ANTICIPATED CONVECTION THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS...CEILINGS WILL BE OVERCAST WITHIN 3000FT AGL WITH SCT DECKS BLW 1000FT. VISIBILITY WILL BE LOWERED TO UNDER 3 MILES IN THE MOST ROBUST ACTIVITY. OUTSIDE OF THE CONVECTION...BROKEN DECK OF STRATUS HAS OVERSPREAD THE AREA WITH VISIBILITIES REDUCED BETWEEN 4 TO 6 MILES. EXPECT RELATIVELY LITTLE CHANGE WITHIN THE NEXT 6 HOURS WITH A GRADUAL INCREASE IN CONVECTIVE COVERAGE WITH TIME. FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS...REFER TO SHORT TERM FORECAST DISCUSSION SECTION. BLAIR && .TOP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 509 AM CDT MON JUL 30 2007 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-311015- REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 509 AM CDT MON JUL 30 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL. SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND AGAIN WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...MAINLY ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER ONE INCH TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA.
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 103 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:21 UTC.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Up to 6 inches of running water was reported to be flowing over 6th street. Spotter also reported 4.1 inches of rain had fallen in approximately 2 hours. One lane of highway 59 is closed in the city of Garnett.
Car was swept off the roadway by flowing water...and into a ditch near the intersection of hwy 31 and Meade road...near Cedar Creek. Driver was rescued and uninjured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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