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River Flood Warning 289, NWS Kansas City, MO

August 4, 20154 counties in Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Aug 4, 2015, 7:57 AM CDT for 4 counties in Missouri. It took effect at Aug 4, 2015, 3:48 PM CDT. It was in force for 57 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 4, 2015, 7:57 AM CDT (12:57 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 4, 2015, 3:48 PM CDT
Expired: Aug 7, 2015, 12:20 AM CDT
In force: 57 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Moderate

Counties Carroll County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Grand River near Sumner (SNZM7).

Action stage: 21 ft
Minor stage: 26 ft
Moderate stage: 28 ft
Major stage: 40 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06902000, 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 Aug 4, 6:17 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 6:17 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 5:18 AM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 3:07 AM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
307 AM CDT TUE AUG 4 2015

MOZ002>004-040900-
WORTH MO-GENTRY MO-NODAWAY MO-
307 AM CDT TUE AUG 4 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN GENTRY...WORTH AND
NODAWAY COUNTIES UNTIL 400 AM CDT...

AT 306 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR HOPKINS TO 6 MILES
NORTH OF MARYVILLE TO NEAR SKIDMORE...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

WINDS UP TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MARYVILLE...GRANT CITY...HOPKINS...RAVENWOOD...IRENA...CONCEPTION
JUNCTION...SHERIDAN...PARNELL...PICKERING...CLYDE...ARKOE...WORTH...
QUITMAN AND CONCEPTION.

THESE STORMS MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 4057 9431 4056 9425 4032 9448 4021 9472
      4036 9517 4043 9499 4057 9484
TIME...MOT...LOC 0806Z 287DEG 25KT 4059 9475 4043 9491 4035 9511

MJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 8:49 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Buchanan	61 hr
Aug 4, 1:12 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Adair, Linn, Macon, Sullivan	6 hr
Aug 4, 3:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Nodaway, Worth	53 min
Aug 4, 3:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Linn, Macon, Randolph	5 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Missouri, 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.