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River Flood Warning 124, NWS Topeka, KS

June 22, 2019Republic County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at Jun 22, 2019, 12:53 PM CDT for Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 2019, 12:53 PM CDT (17:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2019, 12:04 AM CDT
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Republic County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:56 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 Republican River at Scandia (SNDK1).

Action stage: 5 ft
Minor stage: 10 ft
Moderate stage: 13 ft
Major stage: 15 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06854500, 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 Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jun 22, 12:33 PM CDT, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 12:33 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 22, 11:53 AM CDT, 1 hour before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1153 AM CDT SAT JUN 22 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0955 AM     TSTM WND DMG     5 NNE PRINCETON         38.55N 95.25W
06/21/2019                   FRANKLIN           KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

            CORRECTS PREVIOUS LSR FOR TIME, BASED OFF
            ARCHIVED RADAR DATA. TSTM WND DMG REPORT
            FROM 5 NNE PRINCETON. DELAYED REPORT OF
            15-20 POWER POLES SNAPPED ALONG ROCK CREEK
            ROAD.

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha	38 min
Jun 21, 7:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha	4 hr
Jun 21, 8:04 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Cloud	51 hr
Jun 21, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha	38 min
Jun 21, 8:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha	33 min
Jun 21, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie	39 min
Jun 21, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Nemaha, Pottawatomie	44 min
Jun 21, 9:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jackson	37 min
Jun 21, 11:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha	6 hr
Jun 22, 4:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Washington	33 min
Jun 22, 3:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	TOP	Anderson, Brown, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas, Franklin and 12 more	23 hr
Jun 22, 4:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Shawnee	26 min
Jun 22, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee	42 min
Jun 22, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Ottawa	38 min
Jun 22, 5:09 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Marshall, Washington	31 hr
Jun 22, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jefferson	38 min
Jun 22, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Ottawa	45 min
Jun 22, 5:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Pottawatomie	35 min
Jun 22, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	50 min
Jun 22, 6:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Jackson, Nemaha, Pottawatomie	4 hr
Jun 22, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Riley	45 min
Jun 22, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee	40 min
Jun 22, 6:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Ottawa	4 hr
Jun 22, 6:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Pottawatomie	29 min
Jun 22, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jefferson	27 min
Jun 22, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	53 min
Jun 22, 6:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Jefferson	4 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.