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River Flood Warning 59, NWS Topeka, KS

July 5, 2010Ottawa County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at Jul 5, 2010, 11:35 AM CDT for Ottawa County, Kansas. It took effect at Jul 5, 2010, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 5, 2010, 11:35 AM CDT (16:35 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 5, 2010, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jul 6, 2010, 7:21 AM CDT
In force: 18 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Flood severity: Minor

County Ottawa County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Solomon River at Minneapolis (MPSK1).

Action stage: 21 ft
Minor stage: 26 ft
Moderate stage: 30 ft
Major stage: 38 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06876440, 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 Jul 4, 4:35 PM CDT, 19 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 4:35 PM CDT, 19 hours 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
Jul 4, 7:07 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Marshall	21 hr
Jul 4, 7:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Anderson, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson and 3 more	6 hr
Jul 4, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson	25 min
Jul 4, 7:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Brown, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson, Lyon, Morris and 5 more	112 min
Jul 4, 8:47 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Jackson, Shawnee	14 hr
Jul 4, 8:48 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Riley	12 hr
Jul 4, 9:38 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Shawnee	24 hr
Jul 4, 9:38 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	32 hr
Jul 4, 9:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Brown, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson, Lyon, Morris and 5 more	4 hr
Jul 5, 1:45 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee	8 hr
Jul 5, 2:27 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	19 hr
Jul 5, 2:27 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Geary	19 hr
Jul 5, 11:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	3 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.