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River Flood Warning 269, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Sep 12, 2008, 10:56 PM CDT for Leavenworth County, Kansas. It took effect at Sep 13, 2008, 12:53 AM CDT. It was in force for 20 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 12, 2008, 10:56 PM CDT (03:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 13, 2008, 12:53 AM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 13, 2008, 8:47 PM CDT
- In force
- 20 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Leavenworth County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:56 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 Stranger Creek near Tonganoxie (TNGK1).
- Action stage
- 18 ft
- Minor stage
- 23 ft
- Moderate stage
- 30 ft
- Major stage
- 35 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06892000, 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.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 12, 7:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 807 PM CDT FRI SEP 12 2008 MOZ030-037-038-130145- JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-RAY- 807 PM CDT FRI SEP 12 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR NORTHEASTERN JACKSON...NORTHWESTERN LAFAYETTE AND SOUTHERN RAY COUNTIES UNTIL 845 PM CDT... AT 805 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR GRAIN VALLEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM HAS EXHIBITED SOME WEAK ROTATION...AND ALTHOUGH TORNADIC DEVELOPMENT IS NOT EXPECTED WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING...THIS STORM WILL CONTINUE TO BE MONITORED FOR FURTHER STRENGTHENING. PERSONS BETWEEN BUCKNER AND NAPOLEAN SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM. BOOKBINDER
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Sep 12, 7:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Adair, Grundy, Linn, Sullivan | 6 hr |
| Sep 12, 7:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Ray | 6 hr |
| Sep 12, 7:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Adair, Linn, Putnam, Schuyler, Sullivan | 14 hr |
| Sep 12, 8:20 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Chariton, Macon | 5 days |
| Sep 12, 8:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Grundy, Jackson, Linn, Livingston and 1 more | 12 hr |
| Sep 12, 10:02 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Ray | 55 hr |
| Sep 12, 11:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard, Pettis | 11 hr |
| Sep 12, 11:09 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll, Lafayette | 11 hr |
| Sep 13, 12:14 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Jackson | 8 hr |
| Sep 13, 12:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Platte | 6 hr |
| Sep 13, 12:32 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Ray | 33 hr |
| Sep 13, 12:44 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Adair, Macon, Putnam, Schuyler | 67 hr |
| Sep 13, 12:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Ray | 5 hr |
| Sep 13, 1:15 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Platte | 14 hr |
| Sep 13, 1:25 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Linn, Livingston | 4 days |
| Sep 13, 1:25 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston | 7 days |
| Sep 13, 2:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Daviess, DeKalb, Grundy, Harrison, Livingston and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 13, 3:13 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Andrew, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clinton, DeKalb, Gentry and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Sep 13, 3:45 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Daviess, Livingston | 50 hr |
| Sep 13, 3:45 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Platte | 3 days |
| Sep 13, 5:07 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Buchanan, Clinton, DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison and 3 more | 24 hr |
| Sep 13, 5:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Buchanan, Caldwell, Cass, Clay, Clinton, DeKalb and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 13, 6:08 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Jackson, Lafayette, Ray | 42 hr |
| Sep 13, 6:08 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 41 hr |
| Sep 13, 6:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Adair, Chariton, Linn, Macon, Schuyler | 6 hr |
| Sep 13, 8:29 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Platte | 3 days |
| Sep 13, 9:05 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Chariton, Daviess, Grundy, Lafayette and 3 more | 12 hr |
| Sep 13, 9:09 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Grundy, Livingston | 18 hr |
| Sep 13, 9:28 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Adair, Chariton, Grundy, Harrison, Linn, Macon and 4 more | 24 hr |
| Sep 13, 9:39 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Daviess, Gentry | 31 hr |
| Sep 13, 9:59 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Ray | 30 hr |
| Sep 13, 9:59 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll, Lafayette, Saline | 48 hr |
| Sep 13, 9:59 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Saline | 3 days |
| Sep 13, 9:59 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Chariton, Howard, Saline | 6 days |
| Sep 13, 9:59 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 6 days |
| Sep 13, 10:18 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard, Pettis | 8 hr |
| Sep 13, 10:37 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton | 8 days |
| Sep 13, 12:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Bates, Cass, Chariton, Henry, Howard, Johnson and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 13, 1:13 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson, Pettis | 63 hr |
| Sep 13, 1:13 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Saline | 7 days |
| Sep 13, 2:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Henry, Johnson, Lafayette, Macon and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 13, 2:20 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cass, Henry, Johnson | 50 hr |
| Sep 13, 3:26 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper | 55 hr |
| Sep 13, 3:26 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Howard | 38 hr |
| Sep 13, 6:14 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass, Chariton, Cooper, Henry, Howard and 5 more | 24 hr |
| Sep 12, 10:56 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison, Leavenworth | 56 hr |
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.