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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Wichita, KS

March 29, 2009Labette County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this river flood warning at Mar 29, 2009, 8:22 AM CDT for Labette County, Kansas. It took effect at Mar 29, 2009, 5:36 PM CDT. It was in force for 40 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 29, 2009, 8:22 AM CDT (13:22 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 29, 2009, 5:36 PM CDT
Expired
Mar 31, 2009, 9:12 AM CDT
In force
40 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Flood severity
Minor

County Labette County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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The river

Written for the forecast point Neosho River at Oswego (OSWK1).

Action stage
15 ft
Minor stage
17 ft
Moderate stage
20 ft
Major stage
25 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 Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Mar 29, 5:58 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 29, 5:58 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
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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.