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River Flood Warning 88, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this river flood warning at Aug 20, 2009, 12:48 PM CDT for Labette County, Neosho County, Kansas. It took effect at Aug 20, 2009, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 13 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 20, 2009, 12:48 PM CDT (17:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 20, 2009, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2009, 2:10 AM CDT
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Labette County, KS, Neosho County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Neosho River near Parsons (PPFK1).
- Action stage
- 19 ft
- Minor stage
- 21 ft
- Moderate stage
- 23 ft
- Major stage
- 32 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07183500, 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 Aug 20, 12:21 PM CDT, 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 20, 12:21 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 19, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 54 min |
| Aug 19, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk | 55 min |
| Aug 19, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk, Montgomery, Wilson | 63 min |
| Aug 19, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Montgomery | 66 min |
| Aug 19, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk, Montgomery, Wilson | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Montgomery | 66 min |
| Aug 19, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 59 min |
| Aug 19, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho, Wilson | 35 min |
| Aug 19, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 56 min |
| Aug 19, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 29 min |
| Aug 19, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 55 min |
| Aug 19, 10:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Neosho, Wilson | 9 hr |
| Aug 19, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho, Wilson | 41 min |
| Aug 19, 11:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Neosho, Wilson | 8 hr |
| Aug 20, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 55 min |
| Aug 20, 1:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 58 min |
| Aug 20, 2:52 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 17 hr |
| Aug 20, 7:03 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Neosho, Wilson | 9 hr |
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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.