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River Flood Warning 19, NWS Topeka, KS

June 13, 2008Franklin County, Osage County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at Jun 13, 2008, 8:01 AM CDT for Franklin County, Osage County, Kansas. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2008, 8:01 AM CDT (13:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2008, 8:50 PM CDT
In force: 13 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Franklin County, KS, Osage County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Marais Des Cygnes River near Quenemo (QNMK1).

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 17 ft
Moderate stage: 24.5 ft
Major stage: 40.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 Jun 13, 3:01 AM CDT, 5 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 3:01 AM CDT, 5 hours 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
Jun 12, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee	39 min
Jun 12, 7:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Osage	20 min
Jun 12, 7:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Osage	4 hr
Jun 12, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Coffey, Lyon, Osage	43 min
Jun 12, 8:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Douglas	4 hr
Jun 12, 9:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Lyon	3 hr
Jun 12, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Coffey	27 min
Jun 12, 9:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Osage	4 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.