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River Flood Warning 199, NWS Kansas City, MO

August 27, 20094 counties in Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Aug 27, 2009, 3:35 PM CDT for 4 counties in Missouri. It took effect at Aug 27, 2009, 6:03 PM CDT. It was in force for 3 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 27, 2009, 3:35 PM CDT (20:35 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 27, 2009, 6:03 PM CDT
Expired: Aug 30, 2009, 9:58 PM CDT
In force: 3 days
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity: Moderate

Counties Carroll County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Grand River near Sumner (SNZM7). The gauge peaked at 33.74 ft at Aug 29, 2009, 1:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 21 ft
Minor stage: 26 ft
Moderate stage: 28 ft
Major stage: 40 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06902000, 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 27, 3:00 PM CDT, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 27, 3:00 PM CDT, 35 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
Aug 26, 10:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Grundy, Harrison, Mercer, Putnam, Sullivan	4 hr
Aug 26, 11:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Daviess, Grundy, Livingston	6 hr
Aug 27, 9:20 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Linn, Livingston	49 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.