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River Flood Warning 17, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this river flood warning at Jul 30, 2013, 10:54 AM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It took effect at Jul 30, 2013, 11:43 AM CDT. It was in force for 39 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 30, 2013, 10:54 AM CDT (15:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 30, 2013, 11:43 AM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2013, 2:21 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Sedgwick County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 4 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Little Arkansas River near Sedgwick (SEDK1). The gauge peaked at 25.07 ft at Jul 31, 2013, 5:00 AM CDT.
- Action stage
- 20 ft
- Minor stage
- 22 ft
- Moderate stage
- 25 ft
- Major stage
- 26 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07144100, 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 Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jul 30, 6:08 AM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 6:08 AM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 29, 8:27 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Chase | 4 days |
| Jul 29, 8:27 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Chase, Lyon | 7 days |
| Jul 29, 9:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Neosho, Wilson | 6 hr |
| Jul 29, 9:24 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno | 35 hr |
| Jul 29, 9:28 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Saline | 5 hr |
| Jul 29, 9:46 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 5 hr |
| Jul 29, 10:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 34 min |
| Jul 29, 10:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 26 min |
| Jul 29, 10:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey | 12 hr |
| Jul 29, 11:25 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Neosho | 17 hr |
| Jul 29, 11:25 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Labette, Neosho | 39 hr |
| Jul 30, 12:34 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 9 hr |
| Jul 30, 1:12 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Saline | 9 hr |
| Jul 30, 2:21 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Saline | 31 hr |
| Jul 30, 3:15 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Neosho, Wilson | 12 hr |
| Jul 30, 3:28 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Wilson | 5 hr |
| Jul 30, 5:58 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Chase, Greenwood | 60 hr |
| Jul 30, 8:19 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey | 33 hr |
| Jul 30, 10:31 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey | 24 hr |
| Jul 30, 1:46 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Rice | 25 hr |
| Jul 30, 2:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Neosho | 24 hr |
| Jul 30, 3:11 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | ICT | Allen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 20 more | 19 hr |
| Jul 30, 4:30 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Cherokee, Labette | 39 hr |
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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.