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River Flood Warning 75, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this river flood warning at May 19, 2019, 2:51 PM CDT for Saline County, Kansas. It took effect at May 20, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 10 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 2019, 2:51 PM CDT (19:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 20, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 30, 2019, 3:34 AM CDT
- In force
- 10 days
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Saline County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Smoky Hill River near New Cambria (NCMK1). The gauge peaked at 30.67 ft at May 23, 2019, 1:00 AM CDT.
- Action stage
- 25 ft
- Minor stage
- 27 ft
- Moderate stage
- 30 ft
- Major stage
- 33.1 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06870200, 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 Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at May 19, 2:42 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 19, 2:42 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 18, 7:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Rice | 4 hr |
| May 18, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice | 40 min |
| May 18, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Rice | 35 min |
| May 18, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 40 min |
| May 18, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice, Saline | 61 min |
| May 18, 7:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Reno | 40 min |
| May 18, 8:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice, Russell | 12 hr |
| May 18, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 29 min |
| May 18, 8:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Reno | 10 min |
| May 18, 8:40 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | McPherson, Saline | 12 hr |
| May 18, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Marion, Saline | 62 min |
| May 18, 9:14 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Allen | 13 hr |
| May 18, 9:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | McPherson | 31 min |
| May 18, 9:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Marion | 34 min |
| May 18, 10:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harvey | 51 min |
| May 18, 10:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chase | 32 min |
| May 18, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 39 min |
| May 18, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 39 min |
| May 18, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk, Montgomery, Wilson | 47 min |
| May 18, 11:49 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 8 days |
| May 18, 11:49 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 9 hr |
| May 19, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson | 42 min |
| May 19, 1:08 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Saline | 8 hr |
| May 19, 1:11 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Saline | 8 hr |
| May 19, 3:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ICT | Allen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 20 more | 60 hr |
| May 19, 7:43 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Reno, Rice | 15 days |
| May 19, 8:42 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | McPherson, Saline | 49 hr |
| May 19, 11:45 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | McPherson | 5 days |
| May 19, 2:02 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Reno, Rice | 5 days |
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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.