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River Flood Warning 157, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 16, 2015Platte County, Missouri; Leavenworth County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Jun 16, 2015, 10:23 AM CDT for Platte County, Missouri; Leavenworth County, Kansas. It took effect at Jun 16, 2015, 11:54 PM CDT. It was in force for 50 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 2015, 10:23 AM CDT (15:23 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 16, 2015, 11:54 PM CDT
Expired: Jun 19, 2015, 2:12 AM CDT
In force: 50 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Leavenworth County, KS, Platte County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:25 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 Missouri River at Leavenworth (LEVK1). The gauge peaked at 20.02 ft at Jun 17, 2015, 8:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 17 ft
Minor stage: 20 ft
Moderate stage: 24 ft
Major stage: 30 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06820475, 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 Jun 16, 6:17 AM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 6:17 AM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 4:58 AM CDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
458 AM CDT TUE JUN 16 2015

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-171000-
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-
458 AM CDT TUE JUN 16 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL AND
WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

 SCATTERED STORMS TODAY ESPECIALLY NEAR AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70.
 NO SEVERE STORMS EXPECTED.

 MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT...
 HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/EAX/HWO

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

 HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING POSSIBLE AS FAR NORTH AS US 50 LATER THIS
 WEEK.

 MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT...
 HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/EAX/HWO

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 7:31 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Chariton, Howard, Randolph	4 hr
Jun 15, 10:47 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Howard	42 hr
Jun 16, 5:38 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Henry, Johnson	31 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2015 River Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2015 Every river flood warning in 2015

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.