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River Flood Warning 24, NWS Topeka, KS

June 27, 2008Coffey County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at Jun 27, 2008, 9:25 AM CDT for Coffey County, Kansas. It took effect at Jun 27, 2008, 11:57 AM CDT. It was in force for 117 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 2008, 9:25 AM CDT (14:25 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 27, 2008, 11:57 AM CDT
Expired: Jun 27, 2008, 1:54 PM CDT
In force: 117 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Flood severity: Moderate

County Coffey County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Neosho River at Le Roy (LRYK1).

Action stage: 18 ft
Minor stage: 23 ft
Moderate stage: 23 ft
Major stage: 38 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 27, 7:11 AM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 7:11 AM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 5:07 AM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 27, 4:03 AM CDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 27, 6:26 AM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 27, 6:59 AM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 27, 7:02 AM CDT, 2 hours 23 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
Jun 26, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	53 min
Jun 26, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	52 min
Jun 26, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud	51 min
Jun 26, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Riley, Wabaunsee	45 min
Jun 26, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Morris, Wabaunsee	48 min
Jun 26, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud	47 min
Jun 26, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud, Ottawa	52 min
Jun 26, 9:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	118 min
Jun 26, 9:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Geary, Ottawa, Riley	8 hr
Jun 26, 9:50 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Cloud	35 hr
Jun 26, 10:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Cloud, Republic	6 hr
Jun 26, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud, Republic	47 min
Jun 26, 11:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Ottawa	4 hr
Jun 26, 11:37 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Clay	10 hr
Jun 26, 11:37 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Clay	10 hr
Jun 26, 11:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Marshall, Republic, Riley, Washington	5 hr
Jun 27, 4:44 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Cloud, Republic	106 min

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.