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River Flood Warning 35, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 25, 2009Platte County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Mar 25, 2009, 7:45 AM CDT for Platte County, Missouri. It took effect at Mar 25, 2009, 6:27 PM CDT. It was in force for 62 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 25, 2009, 7:45 AM CDT (12:45 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 25, 2009, 6:27 PM CDT
Expired: Mar 28, 2009, 8:44 AM CDT
In force: 62 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity: Minor

County Platte County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Platte River near Platte City (PLCM7).

Action stage: 17 ft
Minor stage: 20 ft
Moderate stage: 25 ft
Major stage: 29 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 Mar 25, 6:32 AM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 6:32 AM CDT, 1 hour 13 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
Mar 24, 8:47 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Chariton, Macon	22 hr
Mar 24, 8:47 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Daviess, Livingston	33 hr
Mar 25, 4:51 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Platte	66 hr
Mar 25, 10:04 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Daviess, Gentry	9 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.