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River Flood Warning 71, NWS Topeka, KS

May 20, 2019Pottawatomie County, Riley County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at May 20, 2019, 10:16 AM CDT for Pottawatomie County, Riley County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas. It took effect at May 21, 2019, 6:48 AM CDT. It was in force for 20 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 20, 2019, 10:16 AM CDT (15:16 UTC)
In effect from: May 21, 2019, 6:48 AM CDT
Expired: Jun 10, 2019, 10:16 AM CDT
In force: 20 days
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 15:18 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).

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 May 20, 6:04 AM CDT, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 20, 6:04 AM CDT, 4 hours 12 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 19, 8:04 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Ottawa, Saline	10 days
May 19, 8:06 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Ottawa	21 days
May 20, 10:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Ottawa, Saline	7 days
May 20, 10:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Dickinson	9 days
May 20, 10:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Dickinson	21 days
May 20, 10:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Franklin, Osage	3 days
May 20, 10:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Lyon, Osage	52 hr
May 20, 10:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	63 hr
May 20, 10:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Riley	44 hr
May 20, 10:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Geary	56 hr
May 20, 10:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	35 hr
May 20, 10:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Osage	36 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.