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River Flood Warning 138, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 8, 2019Atchison County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at May 8, 2019, 9:48 AM CDT for Atchison County, Kansas. It took effect at May 8, 2019, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 31 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 8, 2019, 9:48 AM CDT (14:48 UTC)
In effect from
May 8, 2019, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired
May 9, 2019, 7:08 PM CDT
In force
31 hr
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Atchison County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:51 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 Delaware River (KS) near Muscotah (MSCK1). The gauge peaked at 26.76 ft at May 8, 2019, 2:00 PM CDT.

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Action stage
22 ft
Minor stage
27 ft
Moderate stage
28 ft
Major stage
36 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06890100, 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 May 7, 5:50 PM CDT, 15 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 5:50 PM CDT, 15 hours 58 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 9:47 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXLinn, Livingston51 hr
May 7, 9:47 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXBates, Cass, Henry71 hr
May 8, 12:41 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXClinton34 min
May 8, 12:46 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXCass44 min
May 8, 12:56 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXCooper49 min
May 8, 8:22 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXBuchanan4 days
May 8, 8:22 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXPlatte5 days
May 8, 8:22 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXPlatte3 days
May 8, 8:22 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXAtchison, Holt59 hr
May 8, 8:55 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXClay, Ray23 hr
May 8, 11:27 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXJohnson, Pettis17 hr
May 8, 12:52 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXAndrew, Buchanan42 hr
May 8, 3:37 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXClay, Jackson, Platte4 days
May 7, 9:47 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXLeavenworth47 hr
May 8, 9:48 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXWyandotte64 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2019Every river flood warning in 2019

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.