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River Flood Warning 76, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this river flood warning at May 20, 2019, 9:03 AM CDT for Ellsworth County, Kansas. It took effect at May 21, 2019, 6:31 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 20, 2019, 9:03 AM CDT (14:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 21, 2019, 6:31 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 21, 2019, 11:14 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Ellsworth County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Smoky Hill River at Ellsworth (ELWK1). The gauge peaked at 17.89 ft at May 22, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT.
- Action stage
- 18 ft
- Minor stage
- 20 ft
- Moderate stage
- 24 ft
- Major stage
- 27 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06864500, 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 20, 5:27 AM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 20, 5:27 AM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 9:14 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Allen | 12 days |
| May 20, 9:14 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho | 13 days |
| May 20, 9:14 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Neosho | 14 days |
| May 20, 9:14 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Labette, Neosho | 21 days |
| May 20, 9:14 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Cherokee, Labette | 16 days |
| May 20, 9:47 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 66 hr |
| May 20, 9:49 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Wilson | 66 hr |
| May 20, 9:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harper | 23 min |
| May 20, 9:53 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 24 hr |
| May 20, 9:59 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | McPherson, Saline | 4 days |
| May 20, 10:01 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Saline | 56 hr |
| May 20, 10:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 47 min |
| May 20, 1:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette | 27 min |
| May 20, 1:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harper, Kingman, Reno | 52 min |
| May 20, 1:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua | 26 min |
| May 20, 1:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua | 30 min |
| May 20, 1:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 50 min |
| May 20, 2:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Elk | 31 min |
| May 20, 2:19 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno | 5 days |
| May 20, 2:19 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey | 9 days |
| May 20, 2:19 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 7 days |
| May 20, 2:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Sedgwick | 26 min |
| May 20, 2:23 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Wilson | 8 days |
| May 20, 2:23 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Montgomery, Wilson | 11 days |
| May 20, 2:23 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 11 days |
| May 20, 2:24 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Kingman | 4 days |
| May 20, 2:24 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 65 hr |
| May 20, 2:24 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 4 days |
| May 20, 2:26 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 58 hr |
| May 20, 2:26 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 66 hr |
| May 20, 2:29 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harper and 7 more | 21 hr |
| May 20, 2:29 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Cowley | 10 days |
| May 20, 2:29 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 55 hr |
| May 20, 2:29 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 10 days |
| May 20, 2:35 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Reno | 15 days |
| May 20, 2:35 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Reno, Sedgwick | 16 days |
| May 20, 2:35 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 8 days |
| May 20, 2:35 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 9 days |
| May 20, 2:35 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 21 days |
| May 20, 2:35 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Cowley | 21 days |
| May 20, 2:35 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 54 hr |
| May 20, 2:38 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Marion | 59 hr |
| May 20, 2:38 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Chase | 7 days |
| May 20, 2:38 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Chase, Lyon | 8 days |
| May 20, 2:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 26 min |
| May 20, 3:18 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, McPherson, Reno, Rice and 2 more | 24 hr |
| May 20, 3:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Allen, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson | 2 hr |
| May 20, 3:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 31 min |
| May 20, 3:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Elk | 26 min |
| May 20, 3:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Marion and 3 more | 7 hr |
| May 20, 4:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Greenwood | 30 min |
| May 20, 4:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Cowley | 32 min |
| May 20, 5:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Woodson | 30 min |
| May 20, 5:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Greenwood | 28 min |
| May 20, 5:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua | 26 min |
| May 20, 5:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson | 17 hr |
| May 20, 6:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua | 30 min |
| May 20, 6:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua | 26 min |
| May 20, 6:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk, Greenwood | 4 hr |
| May 20, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Montgomery, Wilson | 41 min |
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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.