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River Flood Warning 70, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 15, 2019Wyandotte County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Mar 15, 2019, 10:25 AM CDT for Wyandotte County, Kansas. It took effect at Mar 17, 2019, 8:12 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 15, 2019, 10:25 AM CDT (15:25 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 17, 2019, 8:12 PM CDT
Expired
Mar 16, 2019, 2:19 PM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Wyandotte County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 Kansas River at 23rd Street - Kansas City - KS (KCKK1). The gauge peaked at 30.73 ft at Mar 17, 2019, 1:00 PM CDT.

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Action stage
29 ft
Minor stage
33 ft
Moderate stage
54 ft
Major stage
55 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06892950, 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 Mar 15, 6:10 AM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 6:10 AM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 14, 9:43 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXClay, Jackson, Platte8 days

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.