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River Flood Warning 195, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Aug 17, 2009, 3:41 PM CDT for Leavenworth County, Kansas. It took effect at Aug 17, 2009, 5:56 PM CDT. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 2009, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 17, 2009, 5:56 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2009, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Leavenworth County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Stranger Creek near Tonganoxie (TNGK1). The gauge peaked at 21.16 ft at Aug 17, 2009, 8:00 PM CDT.
- Action stage
- 18 ft
- Minor stage
- 23 ft
- Moderate stage
- 30 ft
- Major stage
- 35 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06892000, 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 Aug 17, 3:27 PM CDT, 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 3:27 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 10:01 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston | 5 days |
| Aug 16, 10:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess, Livingston, Ray | 15 hr |
| Aug 16, 10:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Livingston | 26 min |
| Aug 16, 10:53 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Adair | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 11:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb | 12 hr |
| Aug 17, 12:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Clinton | 23 min |
| Aug 17, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell | 22 min |
| Aug 17, 1:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt | 24 min |
| Aug 17, 1:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Nodaway | 32 min |
| Aug 17, 1:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Chariton, Linn, Macon, Randolph | 12 hr |
| Aug 17, 1:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Holt | 33 min |
| Aug 17, 2:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Livingston, Ray | 11 hr |
| Aug 17, 2:26 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Linn, Livingston | 50 hr |
| Aug 17, 2:46 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Platte | 3 days |
| Aug 17, 2:46 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Platte | 3 days |
| Aug 17, 4:08 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Ray | 53 hr |
| Aug 17, 4:53 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Platte | 6 hr |
| Aug 17, 5:48 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Chariton, Macon | 22 hr |
| Aug 17, 6:18 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Buchanan, Platte | 6 hr |
| Aug 17, 8:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Platte | 6 hr |
| Aug 17, 8:54 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton | 4 days |
| Aug 17, 9:12 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Andrew, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison, Holt and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 17, 9:26 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Lafayette, Saline | 5 hr |
| Aug 17, 9:44 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Clay, Clinton, Cooper, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis and 1 more | 67 hr |
| Aug 17, 9:55 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Chariton, Howard, Saline | 49 hr |
| Aug 17, 9:55 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 49 hr |
| Aug 17, 10:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cass, Clay, Clinton, Jackson | 5 hr |
| Aug 17, 10:45 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Ray | 24 hr |
| Aug 17, 10:50 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Cass | 25 min |
| Aug 17, 10:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 34 min |
| Aug 17, 11:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Johnson | 29 min |
| Aug 17, 12:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb | 33 hr |
| Aug 17, 12:04 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll | 56 hr |
| Aug 17, 12:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Saline | 26 min |
| Aug 17, 12:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Chariton, Clinton, Daviess, Linn and 4 more | 33 hr |
| Aug 17, 12:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Leavenworth | 26 min |
| Aug 17, 12:18 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison, Leavenworth | 30 hr |
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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.