Narrative to follow.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS TOP wrote it up.
Narrative to follow.
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 Jun 15, 5:15 AM CST, 1 hour earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 615 AM CDT TUE JUN 15 2010 .AVIATION... FOR THE 12Z TAFS...UPPER WAVE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION THIS MORNING ENHANCING THE COVERAGE OF -SHRA AND -TSRA THROUGH 18Z TODAY. PREVAILING CIGS AND VIS CONDS SHOULD BE VFR HOWEVER THERE WILL BE AT LEAST PERIODS OF MVFR VIS/CIGS WITHIN THE PRECIP AREAS. CONDS SHOULD BECOME VFR AFTER 18Z AS THE COVERAGE OF THE PRECIP DECREASES THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. SFC WINDS WILL BECOME LIGHT AND COULD BACK TOWARD 180 DEGREES TOWARD 00Z. CO && .PREV DISCUSSION... EARLY MORNING SURFACE ANALYSIS INDICATED A NEARLY STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY POSITIONED NE-SW THROUGH THE CENTER OF THE TOP CWA. A LARGE UPPER TROUGH WAS LIFTING NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE CENTRAL/NORTHERN PLAINS WITH MODEST MID/UPPER FLOW MOVING OVER EASTERN KANSAS. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY CLEARLY DEPICTED A SHORTWAVE TROUGH OVER WESTERN KANSAS SWINGING ALONG THE SOUTHERN PERIPHERY OF THE UPPER TROUGH. MIDDLE 60S TO NEAR 70 SFC DEWPOINTS REMAINED IN PLACE ACROSS THE CWA WITH THE 00Z UPPER AIR SOUNDING SHOWING A FAIRLY MOIST PROFILE ALOFT. ADDITIONALLY...SHORT TERM GUIDANCE SUGGESTS UP TO 1000 J/KG MUCAPE AND 30 TO 40 KNOTS OF SHEAR OVER THE CWA. LONG STORY SHORT...THE INCREASING ASCENT WITH THE APPROACH OF THE SHORTWAVE TROUGH HAS HELPED INITIATE SCT CONVECTION OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS NORTHEASTWARD INTO NORTHEAST KANSAS IN PROXIMITY OF THE AFOREMENTIONED BOUNDARY. ANTICIPATE CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS WITH INCREASING COVERAGE OVER SC INTO NE KANSAS. BY THIS AFTERNOON...FRONTAL BOUNDARY IS EXPECTED TO PUSH MAINLY SOUTH OF THE CWA WITH THE REMAINING UPPER ASCENT FOCUSED TO FAR EAST CENTRAL SECTIONS. LIKEWISE WILL CARRY SLIGHT CHANCES FOR EC KANSAS BUT MOST AREAS SHOULD FINALLY END UP DRY THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. HIGHS TODAY WILL REACH THE LOWER/MIDDLE 80S WITH LOWS TONIGHT IN THE MIDDLE 60S. AN INCREASING WAA PATTERN OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS WILL TRANSPIRE ON WEDNESDAY AS THE NEXT UPPER TROUGH ENTERS THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST. WITH INCREASING MOISTURE INTO THE AREA AND ASCENT OVER THE WEAK BOUNDARY...MODEL GUIDANCE HAS BEEN PERSISTENT IN DEVELOPING CONVECTION OVER CENTRAL KANSAS AND EXPANDING/MOVING NORTHEASTWARD INTO PORTIONS OF THE CWA. THIS SCENARIO SEEMS REASONABLE AND WILL CONTINUE MENTION OF TSRA IN PACKAGE FOR WEDNESDAY. THEREAFTER...INCREASING EML OVER THE PLAINS SHOULD EFFECTIVELY KEEP CONVECTION SUPPRESSED ON THURSDAY. UPPER TROUGH WILL EJECT INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS THU/FRI...WITH A TRAILING COLD FRONT SAGGING SOUTH INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS LATE THU INTO FRIDAY. CHANCES FOR CONVECTION IN QUESTION DUE TO STRONG INVERSION...WEAK SFC CONVERGENCE...AND MARGINAL UPPER SUPPORT. HOWEVER...SEEMS REASONABLE TO MENTION SLIGHT CHANCE OF TSRA IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO FRONTAL BOUNDARY THU NIGHT INTO FRI...MAINLY NORTH OF I-70...BEFORE IT LIFTS BACK NORTH ON SATURDAY. NO CHANGES TO FORECAST BEYOND FRIDAY. BLAIR && .TOP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 534 AM CDT TUE JUN 15 2010 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-161045- REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 534 AM CDT TUE JUN 15 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS THIS MORNING. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON IN FAR EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. SEVERAL LOCAL RIVERS ARE EXPERIENCING SIGNIFICANT RISES...SOME EXCEEDING FLOOD STAGE...MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF INTERSTATE 35. PLEASE REFER TO RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS FOR THE LATEST FORECAST RIVER CRESTS AT INDIVIDUAL LOCATIONS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ON WEDNESDAY ACROSS THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY OVER PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. BLAIR
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 403 AM CDT TUE JUN 15 2010 KSZ011-012-150930- BROWN-NEMAHA- 403 AM CDT TUE JUN 15 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR NEMAHA AND BROWN COUNTIES... THROUGH 430 AM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH ACROSS PORTIONS OF NEMAHA AND BROWN COUNTIES. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH AND HEAVY RAIN. SOME LOCATIONS THAT COULD BE AFFECTED INCLUDE SABETHA...MORRILL...HAMLIN AND RESERVE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
650 AM CDT TUE JUN 15 2010
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0647 AM HEAVY RAIN E DELIA 39.24N 95.96W
06/15/2010 M1.00 INCH JACKSON KS TRAINED SPOTTER
24 HOUR STORM TOTAL
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JLThe Topeka radar (KTWX), 23 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:14 UTC.
4 flash flood, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Water rushed across Zeandale Road at the intersection of Sandy Lane near Zeandale.
Highway 99 two miles north of Wamego has been closed due to heavy rain. Highway 24 eastbound at Camp Creek Road closed due to rushing water.
Kickapoo Reservation Police Department reported 130th and Foxtail had some flooding. 130th and Dewberry also closed due to water over the road.
A small rural creek was out of its banks and flooded a field near Old Highway 36.
A car was swept off the road at Tabor Valley Road and Kaw Road. Water flowed over the road intersection out of the nearby farm fields.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, June 2010
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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 244443, 244445, 244446, 244448, 244450.