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River Flood Warning 14, NWS Topeka, KS

May 26, 2022Lyon County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at May 26, 2022, 8:38 AM CDT for Lyon County, Kansas. It took effect at May 26, 2022, 5:34 PM CDT. It was in force for 56 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2022, 8:38 AM CDT (13:38 UTC)
In effect from: May 26, 2022, 5:34 PM CDT
Expired: May 29, 2022, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 56 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Lyon County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Cottonwood River at Emporia (EMPK1). The gauge peaked at 21.39 ft at May 28, 2022, 2:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 15 ft
Minor stage: 20 ft
Moderate stage: 24 ft
Major stage: 32 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07182260, 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 26, 6:34 AM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 6:34 AM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 8:13 AM CDT, 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 4:23 AM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
423 AM CDT THU MAY 26 2022

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

1122 PM     HEAVY RAIN       GREELEY                 38.37N 95.13W
05/25/2022  E2.50 INCH       ANDERSON           KS   PUBLIC

            DELAYED REPORT.

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JP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 9:11 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Marshall	46 hr
May 25, 9:53 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Riley	4 hr
May 25, 11:46 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Washington	8 hr
May 26, 4:56 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Marshall	9 hr
May 26, 6:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Clay	22 hr
May 26, 8:38 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Lyon	35 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2022 Every river flood warning in 2022

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.