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River Flood Warning 297, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Oct 16, 2008, 5:24 PM CDT for Cooper County, Saline County, Missouri. It took effect at Oct 16, 2008, 9:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 16, 2008, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 16, 2008, 9:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 17, 2008, 9:14 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Cooper County, MO, Saline County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 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 Blackwater River near Blue Lick (BLVM7). The gauge peaked at 24.81 ft at Oct 17, 2008, 12:00 PM CDT.
- Action stage
- 19 ft
- Minor stage
- 24 ft
- Moderate stage
- 29 ft
- Major stage
- 37 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06908000, 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 Oct 16, 3:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 16, 3:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 7:37 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson, Pettis | 5 hr |
| Oct 15, 9:07 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass, Henry | 26 hr |
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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.