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River Flood Warning 6, NWS Kansas City, MO

January 26, 2024Linn County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Jan 26, 2024, 6:15 PM CST for Linn County, Kansas. It took effect at Jan 26, 2024, 8:42 PM CST. It was in force for 37 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 26, 2024, 6:15 PM CST (00:15 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 26, 2024, 8:42 PM CST
Expired
Jan 28, 2024, 9:15 AM CST
In force
37 hr
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Linn County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Marais Des Cygnes River at La Cygne (LCGK1). The gauge peaked at 28.31 ft at Jan 27, 2024, 2:00 PM CST.

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Action stage
20 ft
Minor stage
25 ft
Moderate stage
30 ft
Major stage
36 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06915800, 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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jan 26, 5:18 PM CST, 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 26, 5:18 PM CST, 57 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 26, 3:03 AM CST, 15 hours 12 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
303 AM CST Fri Jan 26 2024

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Atchison KS-Miami-Linn KS-Doniphan-Leavenworth-Wyandotte-Johnson KS-
Atchison MO-Nodaway-Worth-Gentry-Harrison-Mercer-Putnam-Schuyler-
Holt-Andrew-De Kalb-Daviess-Grundy-Sullivan-Adair-Buchanan-Clinton-
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Randolph-Jackson-Lafayette-Saline-Howard-Cass-Johnson MO-Pettis-
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303 AM CST Fri Jan 26 2024

This hazardous weather outlook is for northwest...north central and
west central Missouri...as well as extreme eastern Kansas.

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight

Areas of dense fog will reduce visibility less than a quarter of a
mile this morning.

 More detailed information can be accessed at...
 https://www.weather.gov/eax/hwo

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday

 No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

 More detailed information can be accessed at...
 https://www.weather.gov/eax/hwo

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 26, 10:03 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryEAXAdair, Grundy, Harrison, Linn, Macon, Mercer and 3 more12 hr
Jan 27, 1:38 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryEAXAndrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Cass and 16 more20 hr

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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.