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River Flood Warning 16, NWS Hastings, NE

May 30, 2008Osborne County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this river flood warning at May 30, 2008, 12:00 PM CDT for Osborne County, Kansas. It took effect at May 30, 2008, 12:48 PM CDT. It was in force for 22 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 30, 2008, 12:00 PM CDT (17:00 UTC)
In effect from: May 30, 2008, 12:48 PM CDT
Expired: May 31, 2008, 10:33 AM CDT
In force: 22 hr
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Flood severity: Minor

County Osborne County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point N F Solomon River at Portis (PTIK1). The gauge peaked at 17.88 ft at May 30, 2008, 8:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 13 ft
Minor stage: 15 ft
Moderate stage: 20 ft
Major stage: 25 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06872500, 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 Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at May 30, 6:58 AM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 6:58 AM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 30, 4:59 AM CDT, 7 hours 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 30, 7:55 AM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 30, 7:58 AM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 7:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Clay, Hamilton, Polk, York	40 min
May 29, 7:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	York	6 hr
May 29, 7:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Polk, York	25 min
May 29, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Thayer	24 min
May 29, 8:21 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	GID	Hall	16 hr
May 29, 8:21 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	GID	Buffalo	16 hr
May 29, 8:21 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	GID	Buffalo	16 hr
May 29, 8:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Nance	6 hr
May 29, 8:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Franklin, Harlan	6 hr
May 29, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	32 min
May 29, 8:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Webster	28 min
May 29, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Webster	45 min
May 29, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, Thayer	26 min
May 29, 9:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Thayer	50 min
May 29, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Webster	42 min
May 29, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, York	22 min
May 29, 10:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Thayer, Webster	5 hr
May 30, 1:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Polk	6 hr
May 30, 2:27 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	GID	Nance	22 hr
May 30, 4:18 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	GID	Nance	5 hr
May 30, 7:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Polk	12 hr
May 29, 7:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	51 min
May 29, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	49 min
May 29, 7:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Jewell, Smith	46 min
May 29, 7:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Jewell	6 hr
May 29, 7:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	48 min
May 29, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Smith	32 min
May 29, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	42 min
May 29, 8:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Smith	50 min
May 29, 8:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	6 hr
May 29, 8:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell	47 min
May 29, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	51 min
May 29, 8:58 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	GID	Rooks	19 hr
May 29, 8:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Jewell	32 min
May 29, 9:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks, Smith	24 min
May 29, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	45 min
May 29, 10:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Jewell	36 min
May 29, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell	47 min
May 29, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Rooks, Smith	45 min
May 29, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	26 min
May 30, 6:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Rooks	28 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.