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River Flood Warning 94, NWS Topeka, KS

May 23, 2019Cloud County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at May 23, 2019, 11:17 AM CDT for Cloud County, Kansas. It took effect at May 24, 2019, 5:44 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2019, 11:17 AM CDT (16:17 UTC)
In effect from: May 24, 2019, 5:44 AM CDT
Expired: May 23, 2019, 11:01 PM CDT
In force
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 16:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 May 23, 6:18 AM CDT, 4 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 6:18 AM CDT, 4 hours 59 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 23, 10:34 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Dickinson	4 days
May 23, 10:34 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	21 days
May 23, 10:34 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Riley	14 hr
May 23, 11:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Geary	52 hr
May 23, 5:13 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Washington	55 hr
May 23, 5:13 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Ottawa	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.