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River Flood Warning 102, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 9, 2008Andrew County, Buchanan County, Missouri; Doniphan County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at May 9, 2008, 9:44 PM CDT for Andrew County, Buchanan County, Missouri; Doniphan County, Kansas. It took effect at May 10, 2008, 1:16 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 9, 2008, 9:44 PM CDT (02:44 UTC)
In effect from: May 10, 2008, 1:16 AM CDT
Expired: May 10, 2008, 7:02 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Doniphan County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Buchanan County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Missouri River at St. Joseph (SJSM7).

Action stage: 14 ft
Minor stage: 17 ft
Moderate stage: 21 ft
Major stage: 27 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06818000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

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

NWS Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at May 9, 8:50 PM CDT, 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 8:50 PM CDT, 54 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 9, 1:00 PM CDT, 8 hours 44 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
100 PM CDT FRI MAY 9 2008

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-101100-
ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE-
JOHNSON KS-ATCHISON MO-NODAWAY-WORTH-GENTRY-HARRISON-MERCER-
PUTNAM-SCHUYLER-HOLT-ANDREW-DE KALB-DAVIESS-GRUNDY-SULLIVAN-ADAIR-
BUCHANAN-CLINTON-CALDWELL-LIVINGSTON-LINN MO-MACON-PLATTE-CLAY-
RAY-CARROLL-CHARITON-RANDOLPH-JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-SALINE-HOWARD-
CASS-JOHNSON MO-PETTIS-COOPER-BATES-HENRY-
100 PM CDT FRI MAY 9 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL
AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THUNDERSTORMS MAY MOVE INTO EASTERN KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI BY
SATURDAY AFTERNOON...AND MOVE EAST ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF MISSOURI
SATURDAY NIGHT. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG AT TIMES AS THE STORM
SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS THE REGION...HOWEVER SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT
ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

THERE IS CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. THIS APPEARS
TO BE A MORE POTENT STORM SYSTEM...AND WILL NEED TO BE WATCHED FOR
THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH THE WEEKEND.

DB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 3:43 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	EAX	Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell and 31 more	31 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2008 River Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2008 Every river flood warning in 2008

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.