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River Flood Warning 258, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 22, 2019Atchison County, Leavenworth County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Jun 22, 2019, 9:33 AM CDT for Atchison County, Leavenworth County, Kansas. It took effect at Jun 22, 2019, 10:10 PM CDT. It was in force for 46 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 2019, 9:33 AM CDT (14:33 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 22, 2019, 10:10 PM CDT
Expired: Jun 24, 2019, 8:09 PM CDT
In force: 46 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Moderate

Counties Atchison County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Stranger Creek at Easton (ESTK1).

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 17 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 23 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06891850, 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 Jun 22, 6:15 AM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 6:15 AM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 22, 3:56 AM CDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 22, 7:05 AM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 8:36 AM CDT, 57 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 8:36 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Linn, Livingston	5 days
Jun 21, 9:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Gentry	30 min
Jun 21, 10:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Harrison	40 min
Jun 21, 10:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Gentry, Harrison, Worth	3 hr
Jun 21, 11:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Grundy, Mercer, Sullivan	3 hr
Jun 22, 7:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Bates	40 min
Jun 22, 7:52 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Buchanan	3 days
Jun 22, 7:52 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Platte	5 days
Jun 22, 7:52 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Platte	5 days
Jun 22, 8:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Adair, Schuyler	39 min
Jun 22, 2:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	EAX	Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell and 31 more	23 hr
Jun 22, 4:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan	32 min
Jun 22, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan	28 min
Jun 22, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	DeKalb, Gentry	26 min
Jun 22, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	47 min
Jun 22, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan, DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison, Holt and 2 more	31 min
Jun 22, 5:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan, DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison, Holt and 3 more	15 hr
Jun 22, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Clinton, Platte	32 min
Jun 22, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison	29 min
Jun 22, 6:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Daviess, Harrison	52 min
Jun 22, 9:33 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison	46 hr
Jun 22, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Leavenworth	33 min

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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.