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River Flood Warning 253, NWS Kansas City, MO

December 25, 2009Buchanan County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Dec 25, 2009, 2:18 AM CST for Buchanan County, Missouri. It took effect at Dec 25, 2009, 1:00 PM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 25, 2009, 2:18 AM CST (08:18 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 25, 2009, 1:00 PM CST
Expired: Dec 25, 2009, 8:08 AM CST
In force
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity: Minor

County Buchanan County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Platte River near Agency (AGYM7). The gauge peaked at 19.69 ft at Dec 25, 2009, 4:00 AM CST.

Action stage: 15 ft
Minor stage: 20 ft
Moderate stage: 25 ft
Major stage: 30 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06820500, 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 Dec 24, 5:33 PM CST, 8 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 24, 5:33 PM CST, 8 hours 45 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
Dec 25, 4:35 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Howard	10 hr
Dec 25, 4:44 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper	10 hr
Dec 25, 9:42 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	EAX	Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell and 31 more	18 hr
Dec 25, 10:55 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston	38 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.