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River Flood Warning 346, NWS Kansas City, MO

September 20, 2019Platte County, Missouri; Leavenworth County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Sep 20, 2019, 11:06 AM CDT for Platte County, Missouri; Leavenworth County, Kansas. It took effect at Sep 24, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 42 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 20, 2019, 11:06 AM CDT (16:06 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 24, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired: Sep 26, 2019, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 42 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Leavenworth County, KS, Platte County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:03 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 Missouri River at Leavenworth (LEVK1).

Action stage: 17 ft
Minor stage: 20 ft
Moderate stage: 24 ft
Major stage: 30 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06820475, 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 Sep 19, 3:13 PM CDT, 19 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 19, 3:13 PM CDT, 19 hours 53 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
Sep 20, 3:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	EAX	Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell and 31 more	59 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2019 River Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2019 Every 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.