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River Flood Warning 373, NWS Kansas City, MO

December 15, 2015Linn County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Dec 15, 2015, 11:20 AM CST for Linn County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 15, 2015, 11:20 AM CST (17:20 UTC)
Expired: Dec 16, 2015, 1:23 PM CST
In force: 26 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Linn County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:24 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 Marais Des Cygnes River at La Cygne (LCGK1).

Action stage: 20 ft
Minor stage: 25 ft
Moderate stage: 30 ft
Major stage: 36 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06915800, 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 Dec 14, 5:26 PM CST, 17 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 14, 5:26 PM CST, 17 hours 54 minutes before

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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.