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River Flood Warning 10, NWS Hastings, NE

September 7, 2016Osborne County, Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this river flood warning at Sep 7, 2016, 1:51 AM CDT for Osborne County, Rooks County, Kansas. It took effect at Sep 7, 2016, 11:46 AM CDT. It was in force for 54 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 7, 2016, 1:51 AM CDT (06:51 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 7, 2016, 11:46 AM CDT
Expired: Sep 9, 2016, 5:17 PM CDT
In force: 54 hr
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Osborne County, KS, Rooks County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point S F Solomon River at Woodston (WODK1). The gauge peaked at 12.15 ft at Sep 8, 2016, 2:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 11 ft
Minor stage: 12 ft
Moderate stage: 16 ft
Major stage: 27 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06873460, 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 Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Sep 7, 12:59 AM CDT, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 12:59 AM CDT, 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 6, 8:32 PM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
832 PM CDT TUE SEP 6 2016

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-
071345-
PHILLIPS-SMITH-JEWELL-ROOKS-OSBORNE-MITCHELL-VALLEY-GREELEY-NANCE-
SHERMAN-HOWARD-MERRICK-POLK-DAWSON-BUFFALO-HALL-HAMILTON-YORK-
GOSPER-PHELPS-KEARNEY-ADAMS-CLAY-FILLMORE-FURNAS-HARLAN-FRANKLIN-
WEBSTER-NUCKOLLS-THAYER-
832 PM CDT TUE SEP 6 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND
PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...REST OF TONIGHT.

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS MOST OF
THE OUTLOOK AREA TONIGHT. WHILE WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS
UNLIKELY...A FEW SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE SOUTHEAST OF A LINE
FROM COLUMBUS NEBRASKA...TO HASTINGS...TO PHILLIPSBURG KANSAS.
QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE FROM THE
STRONGEST STORMS.

LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IN PARTS OF NORTHERN KANSAS MAY ALSO CAUSE
FLOODING ACROSS AREAS ALREADY HIT WITH FLOODING IN RECENT
DAYS...ESPECIALLY ROOKS COUNTY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA
WEDNESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY EVENING. THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK THAT
SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE FOR AREAS GENERALLY
ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 14. THE PRIMARY THREATS INCLUDE DAMAGING
WIND GUSTS OF 60 MPH...HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...AND LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINFALL.

ADDITIONAL CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS EXIST ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE
OUTLOOK AREA THURSDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON...AND
AGAIN NEXT MONDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED FOR A SHORT TIME THORUGH LATE
THIS EVENING.

&&

MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE:
   HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS  (ALL LOWERCASE)

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 6, 10:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1014 PM CDT TUE SEP 6 2016

KSZ005-017-070400-
ROOKS KS-PHILLIPS KS-
1014 PM CDT TUE SEP 6 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN ROOKS AND
SOUTHEASTERN PHILLIPS COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 PM CDT...

AT 1014 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9
MILES NORTH OF NICODEMUS...OR 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF HILL
CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PHILLIPSBURG...LOGAN...AGRA...KIRWIN...GLADE AND SPEED.

LAT...LON 3941 9961 3957 9960 3957 9963 3962 9963
      3994 9920 3981 9907 3968 9907 3940 9959
TIME...MOT...LOC 0314Z 230DEG 32KT 3952 9959

HEINLEIN

Local storm report, Sep 7, 12:55 AM CDT, 56 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 6, 7:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Rooks	6 hr
Sep 6, 10:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Phillips	46 min
Sep 6, 11:34 PM CDT	Flood Watch	GID	Osborne, Phillips, Rooks	13 hr
Sep 7, 1:24 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Rooks	26 hr
Sep 7, 1:51 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	GID	Osborne	3 days

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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.