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River Flood Warning 8, NWS Topeka, KS

March 13, 2019Cloud County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at Mar 13, 2019, 9:22 AM CDT for Cloud County, Kansas. It took effect at Mar 13, 2019, 4:50 PM CDT. It was in force for 51 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 13, 2019, 9:22 AM CDT (14:22 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 13, 2019, 4:50 PM CDT
Expired: Mar 15, 2019, 7:54 PM CDT
In force: 51 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 14:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Buffalo Creek (KS River Basin) at Jamestown (JMSK1).

Action stage: 11 ft
Minor stage: 16 ft
Moderate stage: 19 ft
Major stage: 35 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06855800, 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 Mar 13, 5:47 AM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 5:47 AM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 13, 4:08 AM CDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 13, 7:42 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
742 AM CDT WED MAR 13 2019

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

0700 AM     HEAVY RAIN       COLONY                  38.07N 95.36W
03/13/2019  M1.85 INCH       ANDERSON           KS   CO-OP OBSERVER

            CO-OP OBSERVER STATION CNYK1, COLONY.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 12, 9:46 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Marshall	34 hr
Mar 12, 9:46 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Marshall	3 days
Mar 12, 10:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Ottawa	27 min
Mar 13, 12:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Washington	37 min
Mar 13, 12:33 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Washington	42 hr
Mar 13, 4:01 AM CDT	High Wind Warning	TOP	Anderson, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas and 13 more	35 hr
Mar 13, 11:14 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	TOP	Jackson, Jefferson, Pottawatomie	32 hr
Mar 13, 4:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Republic	12 min
Mar 13, 5:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Marshall	42 min
Mar 13, 5:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Marshall	27 min
Mar 13, 5:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Nemaha	32 min
Mar 13, 5:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Marshall	22 min

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.