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River Flood Warning 2, NWS Hastings, NE

June 11, 2009Phillips County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this river flood warning at Jun 11, 2009, 2:53 AM CDT for Phillips County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 11, 2009, 2:53 AM CDT (07:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2009, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 25 hr
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Flood severity: Minor

County Phillips County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point N F Solomon River at Glade (GDEK1).

Action stage: 10 ft
Minor stage: 11 ft
Moderate stage: 16 ft
Major stage: 18 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06871000, 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 Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jun 11, 1:24 AM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 1:24 AM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 11:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1137 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2009

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-
111200-
PHILLIPS-SMITH-JEWELL-ROOKS-OSBORNE-MITCHELL-VALLEY-GREELEY-NANCE-
SHERMAN-HOWARD-MERRICK-POLK-DAWSON-BUFFALO-HALL-HAMILTON-YORK-
GOSPER-PHELPS-KEARNEY-ADAMS-CLAY-FILLMORE-FURNAS-HARLAN-FRANKLIN-
WEBSTER-NUCKOLLS-THAYER-
1137 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND
PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL
KANSAS AND ALONG AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 6 IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.
LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES IS POSSIBLE IN THIS SAME
AREA...WHICH MAY CREATE LOCALIZED FLOODING PROBLEMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

INTERMITTENT THUNDERSTORM CHANCES EXIST THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT...HOWEVER
RAINFALL REPORTS WOULD BE APPRECIATED.

&&

MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE:
   HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS  (ALL LOWERCASE)

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 10, 11:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 10, 11:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 11, 12:29 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 11, 12:31 AM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 11, 12:32 AM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 11, 12:50 AM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 10:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Furnas, Harlan	6 hr
Jun 10, 10:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Furnas, Harlan	6 hr
Jun 10, 11:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	6 hr
Jun 11, 12:10 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	GID	Rooks	33 hr
Jun 11, 2:15 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Osborne, Rooks	6 hr
Jun 11, 4:15 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	12 hr
Jun 11, 2:43 PM CDT	Flood Watch	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	7 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Kansas, 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.