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River Flood Warning 61, NWS Wichita, KS

August 9, 2013Harvey County, Reno County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this river flood warning at Aug 9, 2013, 3:13 PM CDT for Harvey County, Reno County, Kansas. It took effect at Aug 9, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 9, 2013, 3:13 PM CDT (20:13 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 9, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired: Aug 10, 2013, 9:12 AM CDT
In force: 14 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Harvey County, KS, Reno County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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 Little Arkansas River at Alta Mills (ALMK1).

Action stage: 20 ft
Minor stage: 22 ft
Moderate stage: 25 ft
Major stage: 27 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07143665, 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 Aug 9, 1:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 1:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 2:19 PM CDT, 54 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 9, 9:25 AM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
925 AM CDT FRI AUG 09 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0924 AM     HEAVY RAIN       2 NW HUTCHINSON         38.08N 97.94W
08/09/2013  M1.70 INCH       RENO               KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

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SGS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 8, 8:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harper	28 min
Aug 8, 9:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harper	29 min
Aug 8, 9:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harper	26 min
Aug 9, 4:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Kingman, Sumner	52 min
Aug 9, 5:18 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	26 hr
Aug 9, 6:05 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	4 hr
Aug 9, 6:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Allen, Woodson	5 hr
Aug 9, 7:02 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Chase, Greenwood, McPherson, Marion	5 hr
Aug 9, 7:24 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Allen, Woodson	4 hr
Aug 9, 8:43 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	24 hr
Aug 9, 8:43 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Cowley	36 hr
Aug 9, 8:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	McPherson, Marion	6 hr
Aug 9, 10:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Rice	7 hr
Aug 9, 10:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Greenwood	5 hr
Aug 9, 11:24 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Allen, Woodson	24 hr
Aug 9, 11:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sumner	9 hr
Aug 9, 1:52 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Harvey, McPherson, Marion	24 hr
Aug 9, 2:12 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	24 hr
Aug 9, 3:11 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Allen	5 hr
Aug 9, 3:11 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Allen, Neosho	17 hr
Aug 9, 3:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Greenwood	24 hr
Aug 9, 5:06 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Rice	24 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.