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River Flood Warning 188, NWS Topeka, KS

August 2, 2019Cloud County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at Aug 2, 2019, 8:04 PM CDT for Cloud County, Kansas. It took effect at Aug 2, 2019, 11:37 PM CDT. It was in force for 31 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 2, 2019, 8:04 PM CDT (01:04 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 2, 2019, 11:37 PM CDT
Expired
Aug 4, 2019, 6:30 AM CDT
In force
31 hr
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Cloud County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:04 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 Solomon River near Glasco (GLAK1).

Action stage
17 ft
Minor stage
22 ft
Moderate stage
25 ft
Major stage
34 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 Aug 2, 3:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 3:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 9:12 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningTOPDickinson, Ottawa, Saline51 hr

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.