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River Flood Warning 11, NWS Topeka, KS

April 23, 2010Franklin County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at Apr 23, 2010, 9:10 AM CDT for Franklin County, Kansas. It took effect at Apr 24, 2010, 12:20 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 23, 2010, 9:10 AM CDT (14:10 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 24, 2010, 12:20 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 23, 2010, 8:47 PM CDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Flood severity: Minor

County Franklin County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:12 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 Pottawatomie Creek at Lane (LNEK1).

Action stage: 18 ft
Minor stage: 23 ft
Moderate stage: 24 ft
Major stage: 28.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06914500, 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 Apr 23, 6:43 AM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 6:43 AM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 23, 5:29 AM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 23, 8:42 AM CDT, 28 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
Apr 22, 7:24 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Franklin, Osage	25 hr
Apr 22, 10:02 PM CDT	Flood Watch	TOP	Anderson, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas and 12 more	15 hr
Apr 23, 4:34 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Lyon	10 hr
Apr 23, 6:12 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Anderson, Franklin	27 hr
Apr 23, 8:52 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Franklin	7 hr
Apr 23, 9:52 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Marshall	11 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Kansas, 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.