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River Flood Warning 18, NWS Wichita, KS

July 30, 2013Rice County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this river flood warning at Jul 30, 2013, 1:46 PM CDT for Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 30, 2013, 1:46 PM CDT (18:46 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 2013, 3:06 PM CDT
In force: 25 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Flood severity: Minor

County Rice County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 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 Cow Creek (KS) at Lyons (LYNK1).

Action stage: 16 ft
Minor stage: 18 ft
Moderate stage: 22 ft
Major stage: 24.7 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07143300, 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, 12:59 PM CDT, 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 12:59 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 30, 4:36 AM CDT, 9 hours 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 30, 8:22 AM CDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 30, 10:27 AM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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, 10:54 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	39 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

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2013 Every river flood warning in 2013

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.