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River Flood Warning 11, NWS Topeka, KS

May 27, 2008Coffey County, Lyon County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at May 27, 2008, 8:32 AM CDT for Coffey County, Lyon County, Kansas. It took effect at May 27, 2008, 8:20 PM CDT. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 2008, 8:32 AM CDT (13:32 UTC)
In effect from: May 27, 2008, 8:20 PM CDT
Expired: May 28, 2008, 12:31 PM CDT
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Flood severity: Moderate

Counties Coffey County, KS, Lyon County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Neosho River at Neosho Rapids (NEOK1).

Action stage: 17 ft
Minor stage: 22 ft
Moderate stage: 23 ft
Major stage: 44 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07182390, 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 Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at May 27, 3:11 AM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 3:11 AM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 8:42 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Lyon	3 days
May 26, 8:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Riley	2 hr
May 26, 9:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Jackson	2 hr
May 27, 1:29 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Anderson, Dickinson, Franklin	22 days

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.