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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Topeka, KS

March 24, 2009Lyon County, Osage County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at Mar 24, 2009, 11:02 AM CDT for Lyon County, Osage County, Kansas. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 24, 2009, 11:02 AM CDT (16:02 UTC)
Expired: Mar 24, 2009, 8:31 PM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Lyon County, KS, Osage County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Marais Des Cygnes River near Reading (RDNK1). The gauge peaked at 21.69 ft at Mar 24, 2009, 3:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 14 ft
Minor stage: 19 ft
Moderate stage: 21 ft
Major stage: 45 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06910800, 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 Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Mar 24, 6:25 AM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 6:25 AM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 23, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	29 min
Mar 23, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Nemaha	38 min
Mar 23, 7:07 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	TOP	Anderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more	5 hr
Mar 23, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown	50 min
Mar 23, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Morris	39 min
Mar 23, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Riley, Wabaunsee	46 min
Mar 23, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Riley, Wabaunsee	33 min
Mar 23, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	25 min
Mar 23, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Morris	37 min
Mar 23, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Morris, Wabaunsee	35 min
Mar 23, 11:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	26 min
Mar 24, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson, Osage, Shawnee	34 min
Mar 24, 1:22 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee	83 min
Mar 24, 2:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson	62 min

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.