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River Flood Warning 306, NWS Kansas City, MO

August 18, 2019Miami County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Aug 18, 2019, 4:42 PM CDT for Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 18, 2019, 4:42 PM CDT (21:42 UTC)
Expired: Aug 20, 2019, 5:03 AM CDT
In force: 36 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Miami County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Marais Des Cygnes River at Osawatomie (OSMK1).

Action stage: 23 ft
Minor stage: 28 ft
Moderate stage: 45 ft
Major stage: 48 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 Aug 18, 2:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 2:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 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
Aug 18, 2:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	49 min
Aug 18, 2:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	43 min
Aug 18, 2:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Daviess, Mercer	51 min
Aug 18, 2:47 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	EAX	Bates, Cass, Clay, Henry, Jackson, Johnson and 2 more	29 hr
Aug 18, 2:47 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	EAX	Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Cass, Clay, Clinton and 11 more	53 hr
Aug 18, 2:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Atchison, Leavenworth	29 min
Aug 18, 2:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Leavenworth	31 min

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.