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River Flood Warning 9, NWS Topeka, KS

May 7, 2024Marshall County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at May 7, 2024, 6:45 AM CDT for Marshall County, Kansas. It was in force for 19 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 7, 2024, 6:45 AM CDT (11:45 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2024, 1:17 AM CDT
In force: 19 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 11:44 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 19.82 ft at May 7, 2024, 6:00 PM 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 May 7, 5:56 AM CDT, 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 5:56 AM CDT, 49 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 6, 11:44 PM CDT, 7 hours 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 7, 1:49 AM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 7, 1:53 AM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 7, 4:10 AM CDT, 2 hours 35 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
May 6, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Clay, Geary, Marshall, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley and 2 more	26 min
May 6, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Dickinson	26 min
May 6, 7:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley	23 min
May 6, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Geary, Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee, Washington	33 min
May 6, 7:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Dickinson	28 min
May 6, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud, Ottawa, Republic	34 min
May 6, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie	30 min
May 6, 8:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	27 min
May 6, 8:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Riley	36 min
May 6, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie	23 min
May 6, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud, Ottawa, Washington	23 min
May 6, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	TOP	Clay, Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley	25 min
May 6, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown, Jackson, Nemaha, Pottawatomie	47 min
May 6, 8:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Clay, Ottawa, Washington	30 min
May 6, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley	35 min
May 6, 9:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Clay, Washington	38 min
May 6, 9:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Coffey	45 min
May 6, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie	27 min
May 6, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, Osage	36 min
May 6, 9:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Douglas	30 min
May 6, 9:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Dickinson, Marshall, Riley	25 min
May 6, 9:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Nemaha	37 min
May 6, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Douglas, Franklin	54 min
May 6, 10:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Nemaha	3 hr
May 6, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Nemaha	17 min
May 6, 10:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Douglas	39 min
May 6, 10:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley	33 min
May 6, 10:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Brown	33 min
May 6, 11:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Brown, Jackson	32 min
May 6, 11:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Osage	21 min

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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.