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River Flood Warning 60, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 18, 2008Linn County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Mar 18, 2008, 12:36 PM CDT for Linn County, Kansas. It took effect at Mar 19, 2008, 3:57 AM CDT. It was in force for 33 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 18, 2008, 12:36 PM CDT (17:36 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 19, 2008, 3:57 AM CDT
Expired: Mar 20, 2008, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 33 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 17:40 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 Mar 18, 12:33 PM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 18, 12:33 PM CDT, 3 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
Mar 17, 9:17 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	EAX	Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Daviess, DeKalb and 10 more	12 hr
Mar 18, 6:26 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston	43 hr
Mar 18, 8:28 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Ray	15 hr
Mar 18, 4:31 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper	18 hr
Mar 18, 6:26 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Miami	33 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.