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River Flood Warning 232, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 25, 2008Buchanan County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Jul 25, 2008, 2:53 PM CDT for Buchanan County, Missouri. It took effect at Jul 25, 2008, 9:38 PM CDT. It was in force for 60 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 25, 2008, 2:53 PM CDT (19:53 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 25, 2008, 9:38 PM CDT
Expired: Jul 28, 2008, 9:48 AM CDT
In force: 60 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity: Minor

County Buchanan County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Platte River near Agency (AGYM7). The gauge peaked at 22.79 ft at Jul 26, 2008, 10:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 15 ft
Minor stage: 20 ft
Moderate stage: 25 ft
Major stage: 30 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06820500, 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 Jul 25, 6:35 AM CDT, 8 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 6:35 AM CDT, 8 hours 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 25, 10:05 AM CDT, 4 hours 48 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
Jul 24, 9:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Adair, Putnam	6 hr
Jul 24, 10:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Macon	11 hr
Jul 24, 10:46 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Adair, Macon, Putnam, Schuyler	59 hr
Jul 24, 10:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Adair, Putnam, Sullivan	6 hr
Jul 24, 11:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Macon, Randolph	6 hr
Jul 24, 11:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Adair, Sullivan	10 hr
Jul 25, 12:11 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Macon, Randolph	6 hr
Jul 25, 2:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Nodaway	9 hr
Jul 25, 3:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Adair, Putnam, Schuyler	6 hr
Jul 25, 5:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Macon, Randolph	4 hr
Jul 25, 7:36 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Howard	20 hr
Jul 25, 9:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Adair, Macon, Putnam, Randolph, Schuyler, Sullivan	6 hr
Jul 25, 2:53 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton	8 days
Jul 25, 3:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Adair, Chariton, Daviess, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison and 8 more	24 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Missouri, 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.