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River Flood Warning 16, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at Jun 9, 2024, 8:28 AM CDT for Lyon County, Kansas. It took effect at Jun 9, 2024, 9:46 PM CDT. It was in force for 58 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 2024, 8:28 AM CDT (13:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 9, 2024, 9:46 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2024, 7:50 AM CDT
- In force
- 58 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Moderate
County Lyon County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:31 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 23.10 ft at Jun 11, 2024, 4:00 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 Jun 9, 6:26 AM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 6:26 AM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Topeka KS 354 AM CDT Sun Jun 9 2024 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-100900- Republic-Washington-Marshall-Nemaha-Brown-Cloud-Clay-Riley- Pottawatomie-Jackson-Jefferson-Ottawa-Dickinson-Geary-Morris- Wabaunsee-Shawnee-Douglas-Lyon-Osage-Franklin-Coffey-Anderson- 354 AM CDT Sun Jun 9 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Kansas, east central Kansas, north central Kansas and northeast Kansas. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Rain with embedded thunderstorms will continue through the early morning hours before exiting the area later in the morning. Periods of intense rainfall combined with previous heavy rainfall, will cause rapid rises of creeks and streams along with localized river and street flooding, especially south of Highway 56 today. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER MESSAGE Weather spotters are encouraged to relay reports of hail, damaging wind, tornadoes and flooding. && More detailed information can be found at: www.weather.gov/media/top/DssPacket.pdf
In the hours before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 9, 12:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 47 min |
| Jun 9, 1:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Anderson | 23 min |
| Jun 9, 1:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Lyon | 5 hr |
| Jun 9, 1:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Anderson | 40 min |
| Jun 9, 1:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Franklin | 7 hr |
| Jun 9, 4:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Anderson | 5 hr |
| Jun 9, 4:10 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Anderson | 28 hr |
| Jun 9, 5:56 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Franklin, Osage | 22 hr |
| Jun 9, 5:58 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Lyon | 6 hr |
| Jun 9, 8:06 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Franklin | 49 hr |
| Jun 9, 8:28 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Lyon | 4 days |
| Jun 9, 8:47 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Franklin | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 8:47 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Anderson | 4 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.