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River Flood Warning 56, NWS Topeka, KS

May 18, 2019Clay County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at May 18, 2019, 11:12 PM CDT for Clay County, Kansas. It took effect at May 19, 2019, 4:16 AM CDT. It was in force for 14 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 2019, 11:12 PM CDT (04:12 UTC)
In effect from: May 19, 2019, 4:16 AM CDT
Expired: Jun 2, 2019, 12:00 PM CDT
In force: 14 days
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Clay County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Republican River at Clay Center (CYCK1). The gauge peaked at 19.66 ft at May 19, 2019, 9:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 10 ft
Minor stage: 15 ft
Moderate stage: 22.5 ft
Major stage: 28 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06856600, 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 May 18, 6:36 PM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 6:36 PM CDT, 4 hours 36 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
May 18, 8:43 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	46 hr
May 18, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	52 min
May 18, 9:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Dickinson	27 min
May 18, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Geary, Morris	43 min
May 18, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Riley	39 min
May 18, 9:57 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Clay, Dickinson	4 hr
May 18, 10:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Wabaunsee	32 min
May 18, 10:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Riley	4 hr
May 18, 10:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Ottawa, Republic, Washington	4 hr
May 18, 11:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Coffey, Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	67 min
May 18, 11:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley	6 hr
May 18, 11:48 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Dickinson	4 days
May 18, 11:56 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Marshall	60 days
May 19, 12:30 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Riley	9 hr
May 19, 12:43 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Jackson, Pottawatomie	3 hr
May 19, 12:59 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Cloud	10 hr
May 19, 4:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	TOP	Anderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more	63 hr
May 19, 2:55 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Lyon	17 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.