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River Flood Warning 128, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 4, 2008Linn County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Jun 4, 2008, 5:56 PM CDT for Linn County, Kansas. It took effect at Jun 4, 2008, 6:26 PM CDT. It was in force for 17 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 2008, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 4, 2008, 6:26 PM CDT
Expired: Jun 5, 2008, 11:32 AM CDT
In force: 17 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity: Minor

County Linn County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Marais Des Cygnes River at La Cygne (LCGK1).

Action stage: 20 ft
Minor stage: 25 ft
Moderate stage: 30 ft
Major stage: 36 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06915800, 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 Jun 4, 4:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 4:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 4, 1:03 PM CDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 4, 1:14 PM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	39 min
Jun 3, 7:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Jackson	7 hr
Jun 3, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Carroll, Livingston	44 min
Jun 3, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	39 min
Jun 3, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Livingston	38 min
Jun 3, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton	25 min
Jun 3, 8:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Caldwell, Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston, Macon and 2 more	6 hr
Jun 3, 8:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Jackson	6 hr
Jun 3, 8:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	6 hr
Jun 3, 9:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, Saline	6 hr
Jun 3, 9:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cass	5 hr
Jun 3, 10:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson, Pettis	6 hr
Jun 3, 11:02 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Ray	19 days
Jun 3, 11:55 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Jackson	8 hr
Jun 3, 11:55 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Jackson	15 hr
Jun 4, 2:14 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	32 hr
Jun 4, 3:04 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson, Pettis	40 hr
Jun 4, 3:11 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Henry, Johnson	3 days
Jun 4, 4:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson	38 min
Jun 4, 6:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Jackson, Lafayette, Ray	3 hr
Jun 4, 7:50 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper	18 hr
Jun 4, 11:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Henry, Johnson	23 hr
Jun 4, 3:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Jackson	7 hr
Jun 3, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Wyandotte	35 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.