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River Flood Warning 179, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Oct 13, 2014, 9:05 PM CDT for Atchison County, Leavenworth County, Kansas. It took effect at Oct 14, 2014, 8:42 AM CDT. It was in force for 31 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 13, 2014, 9:05 PM CDT (02:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 14, 2014, 8:42 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 15, 2014, 3:43 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Atchison County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 Stranger Creek at Easton (ESTK1).
- Action stage
- 12 ft
- Minor stage
- 17 ft
- Moderate stage
- 18 ft
- Major stage
- 23 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06891850, 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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Oct 13, 9:03 PM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 9:03 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 13, 3:07 PM CDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 307 PM CDT MON OCT 13 2014 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-142015- ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE-JOHNSON KS- ATCHISON MO-NODAWAY-WORTH-GENTRY-HARRISON-MERCER-PUTNAM-SCHUYLER- HOLT-ANDREW-DE KALB-DAVIESS-GRUNDY-SULLIVAN-ADAIR-BUCHANAN-CLINTON- CALDWELL-LIVINGSTON-LINN MO-MACON-PLATTE-CLAY-RAY-CARROLL-CHARITON- RANDOLPH-JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-SALINE-HOWARD-CASS-JOHNSON MO-PETTIS- COOPER-BATES-HENRY- 307 PM CDT MON OCT 13 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE REGION TODAY AND TONIGHT. AS THIS FEATURE PASSES...MODERATE TO LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED. THIS MAY RESULT IN LOCALIZED MINOR FLOODING IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. WINDS WILL INCREASE TONIGHT WITH SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 25 MPH LIKELY. GUSTS AT TIMES MAY REACH AS HIGH AS 35 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TUESDAY WITH MINOR POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING REMAINING POSSIBLE. STRONG WINDS WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE DAY. MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT... HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/IMAGES/FXC/EAX/EM1/EAX-EMBRIEFING1.PDF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 7:42 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper | 29 hr |
| Oct 13, 7:47 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll | 56 hr |
| Oct 13, 8:21 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Linn, Livingston | 68 hr |
| Oct 13, 8:21 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston | 4 days |
| Oct 14, 7:50 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 70 hr |
| Oct 14, 7:50 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Platte | 4 days |
| Oct 14, 7:50 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Platte | 4 days |
Nearby
River Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2014Every river flood warning in 2014
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.