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River Flood Warning 6, NWS Kansas City, MO

January 23, 2010Buchanan County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Jan 23, 2010, 4:36 AM CST for Buchanan County, Missouri. It took effect at Jan 23, 2010, 10:55 AM CST. It was in force for 71 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 23, 2010, 4:36 AM CST (10:36 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 23, 2010, 10:55 AM CST
Expired: Jan 26, 2010, 10:04 AM CST
In force: 71 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity: Minor

County Buchanan County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 Platte River near Agency (AGYM7). The gauge peaked at 24.57 ft at Jan 25, 2010, 2:00 AM CST.

Action stage: 15 ft
Minor stage: 20 ft
Moderate stage: 25 ft
Major stage: 30 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06820500, 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 Jan 23, 3:45 AM CST, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 23, 3:45 AM CST, 51 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
Jan 23, 11:00 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Linn, Livingston	59 hr
Jan 23, 4:44 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Buchanan	16 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.