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River Flood Warning 256, NWS Kansas City, MO

December 25, 20094 counties in Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Dec 25, 2009, 10:55 AM CST for 4 counties in Missouri. It took effect at Dec 25, 2009, 5:37 PM CST. It was in force for 32 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 25, 2009, 10:55 AM CST (16:55 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 25, 2009, 5:37 PM CST
Expired: Dec 27, 2009, 1:21 AM CST
In force: 32 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity: Minor

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 16:58 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 28.96 ft at Dec 26, 2009, 3:00 AM CST.

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 Dec 24, 5:33 PM CST, 17 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 24, 5:33 PM CST, 17 hours 22 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, 2:18 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Buchanan	6 hr
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

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.