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River Flood Warning 12, NWS Topeka, KS

June 8, 2024Marshall County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at Jun 8, 2024, 6:59 AM CDT for Marshall County, Kansas. It took effect at Jun 8, 2024, 9:40 AM CDT. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 2024, 6:59 AM CDT (11:59 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 8, 2024, 9:40 AM CDT
Expired: Jun 8, 2024, 12:51 PM CDT
In force: 3 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 12:02 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). The gauge peaked at 18.50 ft at Jun 8, 2024, 10:00 AM CDT.

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 Jun 8, 6:20 AM CDT, 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 6:20 AM CDT, 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 3:28 AM CDT, 3 hours 31 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
Jun 7, 10:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Ottawa	57 min
Jun 7, 10:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Republic	46 min
Jun 7, 10:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Washington	51 min
Jun 7, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Republic	40 min
Jun 7, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud, Republic	29 min
Jun 7, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Washington	38 min
Jun 7, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Dickinson	33 min
Jun 7, 11:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Brown, Nemaha	25 min
Jun 7, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Republic, Washington	17 min
Jun 7, 11:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jackson	26 min
Jun 7, 11:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Geary, Morris	38 min
Jun 7, 11:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Lyon	37 min
Jun 7, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley	47 min
Jun 7, 11:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Brown	28 min
Jun 7, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson	25 min
Jun 7, 11:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Franklin, Osage	28 min
Jun 7, 11:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Lyon, Morris, Wabaunsee	37 min
Jun 7, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson	32 min
Jun 7, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon	32 min
Jun 8, 12:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Franklin, Osage	35 min
Jun 8, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	18 min
Jun 8, 12:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Franklin, Osage	24 min
Jun 8, 12:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Dickinson	24 min
Jun 8, 12:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jefferson, Shawnee	36 min
Jun 8, 12:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Coffey, Osage	34 min
Jun 8, 12:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Franklin	37 min
Jun 8, 12:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Anderson, Coffey	31 min
Jun 8, 12:48 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Franklin, Osage	3 hr
Jun 8, 1:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Coffey	24 min
Jun 8, 1:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson	17 min
Jun 8, 1:52 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Jackson, Jefferson	3 hr

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.