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River Flood Warning 61, NWS Topeka, KS

December 13, 2015Marshall County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at Dec 13, 2015, 8:37 AM CST for Marshall County, Kansas. It took effect at Dec 13, 2015, 5:45 PM CST. It was in force for 62 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 13, 2015, 8:37 AM CST (14:37 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 13, 2015, 5:45 PM CST
Expired: Dec 16, 2015, 8:00 AM CST
In force: 62 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Marshall County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:36 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 Big Blue River at Blue Rapids (BLRK1). The gauge peaked at 34.31 ft at Dec 14, 2015, 9:00 AM CST.

Action stage: 21 ft
Minor stage: 26 ft
Moderate stage: 52 ft
Major stage: 68 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06884700, 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 Dec 13, 5:38 AM CST, 2 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 5:38 AM CST, 2 hours 59 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 13, 3:53 AM CST, 4 hours 44 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
353 AM CST SUN DEC 13 2015

KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-141000-
REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY-
POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS-
WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON-
353 AM CST SUN DEC 13 2015

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SOME LIGHT ACCUMULATING SNOWFALL SUNDAY
NIGHT...MAINLY NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM ABILENE TO WASHINGTON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.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
Dec 13, 12:01 PM CST	River Flood Warning	TOP	Dickinson	43 hr
Dec 13, 2:00 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Dickinson	3 hr
Dec 13, 2:09 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Marshall, Ottawa and 3 more	3 hr
Dec 13, 3:17 PM CST	River Flood Warning	TOP	Marshall	41 hr
Dec 13, 3:41 PM CST	River Flood Warning	TOP	Riley	29 hr
Dec 13, 4:44 PM CST	River Flood Warning	TOP	Clay	40 hr
Dec 13, 5:02 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Dickinson	6 hr
Dec 13, 5:09 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Ottawa, Republic, Washington	4 hr
Dec 13, 5:49 PM CST	River Flood Warning	TOP	Riley	16 hr

Nearby

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.