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River Flood Warning 12, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 9, 2009Platte County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Mar 9, 2009, 10:23 AM CDT for Platte County, Missouri. It took effect at Mar 10, 2009, 7:16 AM CDT. It was in force for 66 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 9, 2009, 10:23 AM CDT (15:23 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 10, 2009, 7:16 AM CDT
Expired: Mar 13, 2009, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 66 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity: Minor

County Platte County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Platte River near Platte City (PLCM7).

Action stage: 17 ft
Minor stage: 20 ft
Moderate stage: 25 ft
Major stage: 29 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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Mar 9, 7:10 AM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 7:10 AM CDT, 3 hours 13 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 9, 1:59 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Buchanan	25 hr
Mar 9, 3:34 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	EAX	Adair, Andrew, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll and 27 more	27 hr
Mar 9, 10:23 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Platte	59 hr
Mar 9, 1:22 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll	50 hr
Mar 9, 1:57 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Henry, Johnson	4 days
Mar 9, 1:57 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson, Pettis	54 hr
Mar 9, 1:57 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper, Saline	6 days
Mar 9, 1:57 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Adair, Macon, Putnam, Schuyler	20 hr
Mar 9, 1:57 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton	6 days
Mar 9, 1:57 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Howard	29 hr
Mar 9, 1:57 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry	68 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2009 Every river flood warning in 2009

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.