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River Flood Warning 155, NWS Topeka, KS

June 27, 2019Pottawatomie County, Riley County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at Jun 27, 2019, 5:55 AM CDT for Pottawatomie County, Riley County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas. It took effect at Jun 27, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 41 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 2019, 5:55 AM CDT (10:55 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 27, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired: Jun 28, 2019, 11:36 PM CDT
In force: 41 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Kansas River at Manhattan (MHKK1). The gauge peaked at 18.39 ft at Jun 28, 2019, 6:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 14 ft
Minor stage: 18 ft
Moderate stage: 26 ft
Major stage: 42 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06879820, 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 26, 6:36 PM CDT, 11 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 6:36 PM CDT, 11 hours 19 minutes before

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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 27, 11:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Jefferson	10 days
Jun 27, 3:14 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	TOP	Anderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more	29 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.