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River Flood Warning 177, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 4, 2009Cooper County, Saline County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Jul 4, 2009, 8:00 AM CDT for Cooper County, Saline County, Missouri. It took effect at Jul 4, 2009, 10:53 AM CDT. It was in force for 20 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 4, 2009, 8:00 AM CDT (13:00 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 4, 2009, 10:53 AM CDT
Expired: Jul 5, 2009, 6:34 AM CDT
In force: 20 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Cooper County, MO, Saline County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Blackwater River near Blue Lick (BLVM7). The gauge peaked at 25.02 ft at Jul 4, 2009, 2:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 19 ft
Minor stage: 24 ft
Moderate stage: 29 ft
Major stage: 37 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06908000, 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 Jul 4, 6:27 AM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 6:27 AM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 4, 5:59 AM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
559 AM CDT SAT JUL 4 2009

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-051100-
ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE-
JOHNSON KS-ATCHISON MO-NODAWAY-WORTH-GENTRY-HARRISON-MERCER-
PUTNAM-SCHUYLER-HOLT-ANDREW-DE KALB-DAVIESS-GRUNDY-SULLIVAN-ADAIR-
BUCHANAN-CLINTON-CALDWELL-LIVINGSTON-LINN MO-MACON-PLATTE-CLAY-
RAY-CARROLL-CHARITON-RANDOLPH-JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-SALINE-HOWARD-
CASS-JOHNSON MO-PETTIS-COOPER-BATES-HENRY-
559 AM CDT SAT JUL 4 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL
AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON ALONG AND EAST OF
LINE FROM PLEASANTON TO MARSHALL TO KIRKSVILLE...AS A COLD FRONT
MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. A FEW STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN
THE AFTERNOON WITH SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL
POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

CDB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 8:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Atchison, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway, Worth	5 hr
Jul 4, 12:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Clay, Jackson	37 min
Jul 4, 1:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Ray	38 min
Jul 4, 2:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Platte	4 hr
Jul 4, 5:55 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper	35 hr
Jul 4, 6:02 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard	5 hr
Jul 3, 11:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Leavenworth	50 min

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.