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River Flood Warning 170, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 13, 2008Miami County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Jun 13, 2008, 9:45 AM CDT for Miami County, Kansas. It took effect at Jun 14, 2008, 2:31 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2008, 9:45 AM CDT (14:45 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 14, 2008, 2:31 PM CDT
Expired: Jun 14, 2008, 5:48 AM CDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity: Minor

County Miami County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Marais Des Cygnes River at Osawatomie (OSMK1).

Action stage: 23 ft
Minor stage: 28 ft
Moderate stage: 45 ft
Major stage: 48 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 13, 6:35 AM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 6:35 AM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:12 AM CDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:13 AM CDT, 5 hours 32 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 12, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	22 min
Jun 12, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Platte	36 min
Jun 12, 8:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Grundy	6 hr
Jun 12, 8:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Platte	4 hr
Jun 12, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Lafayette, Ray	46 min
Jun 12, 8:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte	4 hr
Jun 12, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Lafayette, Ray	25 min
Jun 12, 9:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Bates, Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte	68 hr
Jun 12, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	26 min
Jun 12, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	30 min
Jun 12, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette	25 min
Jun 12, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette	29 min
Jun 12, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Johnson, Lafayette, Saline	47 min
Jun 12, 11:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Howard, Macon, Randolph, Saline	40 min
Jun 12, 11:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Schuyler	12 hr
Jun 13, 12:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates	40 min
Jun 13, 5:17 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Adair, Macon, Putnam, Schuyler	5 hr
Jun 13, 9:45 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Chariton, Macon	32 hr
Jun 13, 9:45 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Howard	7 hr
Jun 13, 11:54 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Holt, Platte	3 days
Jun 13, 1:11 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry	17 hr
Jun 13, 3:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan, DeKalb, Gentry, Nodaway, Worth	48 hr
Jun 12, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte	33 min
Jun 12, 7:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte	31 min
Jun 12, 11:26 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Leavenworth	11 hr

Nearby

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.