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River Flood Warning 16, NWS Kansas City, MO

February 21, 2010Cooper County, Saline County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Feb 21, 2010, 7:40 AM CST for Cooper County, Saline County, Missouri. It took effect at Feb 21, 2010, 7:23 PM CST. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 21, 2010, 7:40 AM CST (13:40 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 21, 2010, 7:23 PM CST
Expired: Feb 25, 2010, 1:01 PM CST
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Cooper County, MO, Saline County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:43 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 Blackwater River near Blue Lick (BLVM7). The gauge peaked at 26.95 ft at Feb 24, 2010, 2:00 PM CST.

Action stage: 19 ft
Minor stage: 24 ft
Moderate stage: 29 ft
Major stage: 37 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06908000, 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 Feb 21, 5:40 AM CST, 2 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 21, 5:40 AM CST, 2 hours before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 21, 4:54 AM CST, 2 hours 46 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
Feb 20, 8:27 PM CST	Flood Watch	EAX	Bates, Cass, Cooper, Henry, Howard, Johnson and 2 more	15 hr
Feb 21, 4:16 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	EAX	Atchison, Cass, Holt, Howard, Johnson, Nodaway and 2 more	20 hr
Feb 21, 7:40 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Henry, Johnson	28 hr
Feb 21, 7:40 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson, Pettis	34 hr
Feb 21, 7:40 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper	30 hr
Feb 21, 7:40 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Howard	24 hr
Feb 21, 7:40 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper	50 hr
Feb 21, 7:40 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry	48 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2010 Every river flood warning in 2010

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.