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River Flood Warning 8, NWS Hastings, NE

July 27, 2020Osborne County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this river flood warning at Jul 27, 2020, 5:13 PM CDT for Osborne County, Kansas. It took effect at Jul 27, 2020, 6:32 PM CDT. It was in force for 26 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 27, 2020, 5:13 PM CDT (22:13 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 27, 2020, 6:32 PM CDT
Expired: Jul 28, 2020, 8:12 PM CDT
In force: 26 hr
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Osborne County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point S F Solomon River near Osborne (OSBK1).

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 20 ft
Major stage: 27 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06874000, 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 Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jul 27, 1:21 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 1:21 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 27, 2:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 27, 11:28 AM CDT, 5 hours 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 27, 11:37 AM CDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 27, 1:33 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 27, 1:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 8:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Thayer	6 hr
Jul 26, 8:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Fillmore, Thayer	7 hr
Jul 26, 8:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Nuckolls	4 hr
Jul 27, 2:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Thayer	7 hr
Jul 27, 9:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Thayer	12 hr
Jul 26, 7:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Jewell	3 hr
Jul 26, 8:02 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	GID	Mitchell	68 hr
Jul 26, 8:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Jewell, Mitchell	4 hr
Jul 26, 9:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Osborne, Phillips, Rooks	4 hr
Jul 26, 9:39 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Smith	4 hr
Jul 26, 9:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Rooks	3 hr
Jul 26, 10:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Jewell	6 hr
Jul 27, 12:59 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	7 hr
Jul 27, 2:29 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Osborne	11 hr
Jul 27, 3:14 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Jewell	14 hr
Jul 27, 1:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Osborne	33 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2020 Every river flood warning in 2020

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.