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River Flood Warning 348, NWS Kansas City, MO

September 21, 2019Atchison County, Leavenworth County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Sep 21, 2019, 10:02 AM CDT for Atchison County, Leavenworth County, Kansas. It took effect at Sep 22, 2019, 12:20 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 21, 2019, 10:02 AM CDT (15:02 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 22, 2019, 12:20 PM CDT
Expired: Sep 22, 2019, 8:24 AM CDT
In force
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 15:06 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). The gauge peaked at 13.33 ft at Sep 22, 2019, 10:00 PM CDT.

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 Sep 21, 6:20 AM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 21, 6:20 AM CDT, 3 hours 42 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 21, 10:14 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Chariton, Howard, Saline	32 days
Sep 21, 10:14 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard	32 days
Sep 21, 8:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Linn	12 hr

Nearby

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.