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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Topeka, KS

April 20, 2023Marshall County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at Apr 20, 2023, 3:04 PM CDT for Marshall County, Kansas. It took effect at Apr 20, 2023, 6:09 PM CDT. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 20, 2023, 3:04 PM CDT (20:04 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 20, 2023, 6:09 PM CDT
Expired: Apr 20, 2023, 8:13 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Marshall County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Black Vermillion River at Frankfort (FKFK1).

Action stage: 14 ft
Minor stage: 19 ft
Moderate stage: 27.5 ft
Major stage: 40.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06885500, 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 Apr 20, 2:35 PM CDT, 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 20, 2:35 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 20, 2:38 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 20, 10:24 AM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 20, 10:39 AM CDT, 4 hours 25 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
Apr 19, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Jackson, Pottawatomie, Riley, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	43 min
Apr 19, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Riley	36 min
Apr 19, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Osage, Wabaunsee	33 min
Apr 19, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Nemaha	9 min
Apr 19, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Morris, Wabaunsee	46 min
Apr 19, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Nemaha	13 min
Apr 19, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson, Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	50 min
Apr 19, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Brown, Marshall, Nemaha	47 min
Apr 19, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee	44 min
Apr 19, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Osage, Wabaunsee	13 min
Apr 19, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	24 min
Apr 19, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson, Lyon, Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	46 min
Apr 19, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha	24 min
Apr 19, 8:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TOP	Lyon, Morris	50 min
Apr 19, 9:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Pottawatomie	45 min
Apr 19, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Morris, Wabaunsee	34 min
Apr 19, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson, Osage, Shawnee	48 min
Apr 19, 9:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Lyon, Osage	17 min
Apr 19, 9:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Brown	16 min
Apr 19, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Osage, Wabaunsee	22 min
Apr 19, 9:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Lyon	26 min
Apr 19, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson, Osage, Shawnee	48 min
Apr 19, 10:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Shawnee	28 min
Apr 19, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley	27 min
Apr 19, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	31 min
Apr 19, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Morris	26 min
Apr 19, 10:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee	3 hr
Apr 19, 10:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Pottawatomie	3 hr
Apr 19, 10:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jackson	31 min
Apr 20, 12:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Clay	19 min
Apr 20, 12:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Coffey, Lyon	33 min
Apr 20, 12:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Coffey, Lyon, Osage	26 min
Apr 20, 1:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Geary, Riley	29 min
Apr 20, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud, Ottawa	49 min
Apr 20, 1:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Shawnee, Wabaunsee	33 min
Apr 20, 1:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud, Republic	32 min
Apr 20, 1:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Brown, Jackson, Jefferson, Nemaha	26 min
Apr 20, 1:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ottawa, Republic, Washington	49 min
Apr 20, 2:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha, Washington	57 min
Apr 20, 2:12 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Clay	19 min
Apr 20, 2:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley and 1 more	31 min
Apr 20, 2:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Douglas, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Osage, Shawnee	26 min
Apr 20, 2:37 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Clay, Marshall, Nemaha, Riley, Washington	3 hr
Apr 20, 2:39 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley	36 min
Apr 20, 2:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Franklin	24 min
Apr 20, 2:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee	21 min
Apr 20, 2:59 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie	31 min
Apr 20, 3:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Geary, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Riley	44 min
Apr 20, 3:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown, Jackson, Nemaha	57 min
Apr 20, 3:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jackson, Wabaunsee	30 min
Apr 20, 4:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jefferson, Lyon, Shawnee	35 min
Apr 20, 5:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Lyon, Osage	27 min
Apr 20, 7:58 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Marshall	62 min

Nearby

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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.