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River Flood Warning 306, NWS Kansas City, MO

September 1, 2010Clay County, Ray County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Sep 1, 2010, 2:17 AM CDT for Clay County, Ray County, Missouri. It took effect at Sep 1, 2010, 3:53 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 1, 2010, 2:17 AM CDT (07:17 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 1, 2010, 3:53 AM CDT
Expired: Sep 1, 2010, 10:21 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Clay County, MO, Ray County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Fishing River near Mosby (MBYM7).

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 18 ft
Moderate stage: 26 ft
Major stage: 29 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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Aug 31, 11:23 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 11:23 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 31, 5:17 PM CDT, 9 hours before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
517 PM CDT TUE AUG 31 2010

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-012230-
ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE-JOHNSON KS-
ATCHISON MO-NODAWAY-WORTH-GENTRY-HARRISON-MERCER-PUTNAM-SCHUYLER-
HOLT-ANDREW-DE KALB-DAVIESS-GRUNDY-SULLIVAN-ADAIR-BUCHANAN-CLINTON-
CALDWELL-LIVINGSTON-LINN MO-MACON-PLATTE-CLAY-RAY-CARROLL-CHARITON-
RANDOLPH-JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-SALINE-HOWARD-CASS-JOHNSON MO-PETTIS-
COOPER-BATES-HENRY-
517 PM CDT TUE AUG 31 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL AND
WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS PARTS OF
MISSOURI AND EASTERN KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THE THUNDERSTORMS
WERE MORE NUMEROUS IN EXTREME NORTHWEST MISSOURI...AHEAD OF A WEAK
COLD FRONT IN NEBRASKA. A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP THIS
EVENING IN EXTREME NORTHWEST MISSOURI THIS EVENING...WITH THE
ACTIVITY TO DEVELOP SLOWLY SOUTHEAST. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS
MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL BEING
THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS...THOUGH SOME HAIL MAY ALSO
ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. AREAS NORTHWEST OF A LEAVENWORTH TO BETHANYLINE
WILL BE WITHIN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM RISK AREA.

THE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE SOUTHEAST OVERNIGHT AND
LIKELY REACH SOUTH OF THE MISSOURI RIVER BY SUNRISE WEDNESDAY.
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT...WITH ISOLATED
POCKETS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

AN AREA OF WEAKENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY BE
ONGOING OVER THE CENTRAL MISSOURI WEDNESDAY MORNING. ADDITIONAL
THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE DAY ACROSS THE ENTIRE
OUTLOOK AREA. AT THIS TIME...THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT APPEARS
LOW...HOWEVER AN ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUST MAY BE POSSIBLE
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

ON THURSDAY...A COLD FRONT WILL ACCELERATE SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE
OUTLOOK AREA. ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY ACCOMPANY
THIS FRONT...GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ST JOSEPH TO
BETHANY...BEFORE EXITING THE REGION BY THURSDAY EVENING. ISOLATED
DAMAGING WINDS MAY BE POSSIBLE...WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL THE PRIMARY
THREAT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
ACROSS FAR NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 31, 9:51 PM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 31, 9:51 PM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 31, 9:52 PM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 31, 10:04 PM CDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 31, 10:18 PM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 31, 10:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 57 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
Aug 31, 7:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Atchison	44 min
Aug 31, 7:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Cass	49 min
Aug 31, 7:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Holt, Nodaway	38 min
Aug 31, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass	34 min
Aug 31, 8:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Bates	26 min
Aug 31, 8:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Johnson	25 min
Aug 31, 9:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Platte	23 min
Aug 31, 9:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Clinton	30 min
Aug 31, 9:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Platte	27 min
Aug 31, 9:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Clinton	24 min
Aug 31, 10:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Daviess, Grundy, Livingston	27 min
Aug 31, 10:34 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt	12 hr
Sep 1, 12:25 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Nodaway	10 hr
Sep 1, 1:17 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Cass, Henry, Johnson, Pettis	7 hr
Sep 1, 1:23 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Buchanan, Clay, Clinton, Platte	7 hr
Sep 1, 4:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Andrew, Holt, Nodaway	4 hr
Sep 1, 8:47 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll	49 hr
Sep 1, 1:46 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Henry, Johnson	19 hr
Sep 1, 1:46 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson, Pettis	19 hr
Sep 1, 4:48 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Atchison	4 hr
Sep 1, 10:18 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Leavenworth	23 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.