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River Flood Warning 12, NWS Hastings, NE

September 16, 2016Phillips County, Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this river flood warning at Sep 16, 2016, 2:48 PM CDT for Phillips County, Rooks County, Kansas. It took effect at Sep 16, 2016, 6:21 PM CDT. It was in force for 21 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 16, 2016, 2:48 PM CDT (19:48 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 16, 2016, 6:21 PM CDT
Expired
Sep 17, 2016, 3:00 PM CDT
In force
21 hr
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Bow Creek near Stockton (SKTK1).

Action stage
8 ft
Minor stage
9 ft
Moderate stage
12 ft
Major stage
13.6 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06871500, 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 16, 12:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 12:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 16, 4:19 AM CDT, 10 hours 29 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 16, 9:02 AM CDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before
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Local storm report, Sep 16, 10:53 AM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 15, 8:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDDawson27 min
Sep 15, 8:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFurnas24 min
Sep 15, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo, Dawson49 min
Sep 15, 8:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDHarlan37 min
Sep 15, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFranklin, Furnas, Harlan41 min
Sep 15, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo, Dawson23 min
Sep 15, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo49 min
Sep 15, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson31 min
Sep 15, 9:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFranklin, Harlan, Webster41 min
Sep 15, 9:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDDawson, Gosper24 min
Sep 15, 9:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDSherman41 min
Sep 15, 9:22 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDHoward, Nance38 min
Sep 15, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDNance19 min
Sep 15, 9:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDBuffalo47 min
Sep 15, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDAdams, Clay, Franklin, Nuckolls, Webster45 min
Sep 15, 10:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDHoward, Nance39 min
Sep 15, 10:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDClay, Fillmore, Hall, Hamilton, Merrick, Nuckolls and 4 more44 min
Sep 15, 10:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGIDBuffalo, Hall, Howard, Merrick, Nance, Sherman6 hr
Sep 15, 11:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDClay, Fillmore, Hamilton, Merrick, Nuckolls, Polk and 2 more31 min
Sep 15, 9:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDPhillips, Rooks, Smith32 min
Sep 15, 9:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips, Rooks37 min
Sep 15, 9:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDOsborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith49 min
Sep 15, 10:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDJewell, Mitchell, Osborne48 min
Sep 15, 11:39 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGIDPhillips, Rooks6 hr
Sep 16, 5:45 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGIDPhillips, Rooks6 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.