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River Flood Warning 58, NWS Topeka, KS

July 11, 2015Lyon County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at Jul 11, 2015, 4:43 AM CDT for Lyon County, Kansas. It took effect at Jul 11, 2015, 5:20 AM CDT. It was in force for 25 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 11, 2015, 4:43 AM CDT (09:43 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 11, 2015, 5:20 AM CDT
Expired: Jul 12, 2015, 6:45 AM CDT
In force: 25 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Lyon County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:46 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 Cottonwood River at Emporia (EMPK1).

Action stage: 15 ft
Minor stage: 20 ft
Moderate stage: 24 ft
Major stage: 32 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07182260, 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 Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jul 10, 6:22 PM CDT, 10 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 6:22 PM CDT, 10 hours 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 10, 3:17 PM CDT, 13 hours 26 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
317 PM CDT FRI JUL 10 2015

KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-112030-
REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY-
POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS-
WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON-
317 PM CDT FRI JUL 10 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH
CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE
EVENING. THE PRIMARY CONCERN WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALIZED
FLASH FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

HEAT INDEX TEMPERATURES WILL LIKELY REACH 100-105 DEGREES ON
SATURDAY AND TUESDAY...AND MAY EXCEED 105 DEGREES ON SUNDAY AND
MONDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.

&&

MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT...
HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/TOP/SITREP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 8:16 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Coffey, Lyon	39 hr
Jul 10, 9:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Lyon	4 hr
Jul 11, 3:58 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	TOP	Anderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more	65 hr

Nearby

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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.