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River Flood Warning 53, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 21, 2025Atchison County, Leavenworth County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Jul 21, 2025, 5:09 PM CDT for Atchison County, Leavenworth County, Kansas. It took effect at Jul 22, 2025, 3:48 AM CDT. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 21, 2025, 5:09 PM CDT (22:09 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 22, 2025, 3:48 AM CDT
Expired: Jul 22, 2025, 2:22 PM CDT
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Atchison County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Stranger Creek at Easton (ESTK1). The gauge peaked at 13.01 ft at Jul 22, 2025, 7:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 17 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 23 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06891850, 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 Jul 21, 3:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 3:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 21, 5:07 AM CDT, 12 hours 2 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
0507 AM CDT Mon Jul 21 2025

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-221007-
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-
Caldwell-Livingston-Linn MO-Macon-Platte-Clay-Ray-Carroll-Chariton-
Randolph-Jackson-Lafayette-Saline-Howard-Cass-Johnson MO-Pettis-
Cooper-Bates-Henry-
0507 AM CDT Mon Jul 21 2025

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

.DAY ONE...Through tonight.

Please go to https://weather.gov/media/eax/DssPacket.pdf for more information on
potential weather hazards.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday.

Please go to https://weather.gov/media/eax/DssPacket.pdf for more information on
potential weather hazards.

.KEY MESSAGES...

* Flood threat continues for portions of Macon, Linn and Randolph
  counties early this morning. Storms capable of 1-2"/hr rates could
  lead to flash flooding.

* Heat builds back into the region today and is expected to
  continue into Thursday. Excessive heat warning is in effect
  through Thursday south of highway 36, with a heat advisory
  today for northeast Kansas into northwest Missouri. Increasing
  confidence in the need for head headlines regionwide at least
  Tuesday- Thursday.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 21, 1:34 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 20, 8:57 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll	14 hr
Jul 21, 2:16 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Chariton, Linn, Macon, Randolph	3 hr
Jul 21, 3:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Chariton, Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Randolph	6 hr
Jul 21, 4:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Grundy, Harrison, Mercer, Sullivan	5 hr
Jul 21, 4:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Chariton, Howard, Randolph	5 hr
Jul 21, 5:26 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Grundy, Linn, Livingston	4 hr
Jul 21, 6:11 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Chariton, Linn, Livingston, Randolph	3 hr
Jul 21, 6:17 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Chariton, Macon	8 hr
Jul 21, 6:29 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Cooper, Howard, Pettis, Saline	3 hr
Jul 21, 8:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte	3 hr
Jul 21, 9:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	4 hr
Jul 21, 9:31 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Chariton, Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Randolph and 1 more	12 hr
Jul 21, 10:34 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Jackson	4 hr
Jul 21, 10:49 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Jackson	6 hr
Jul 21, 1:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	4 hr
Jul 21, 2:38 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	EAX	Bates, Carroll, Cass, Chariton, Clay, Cooper and 10 more	11 hr
Jul 21, 9:55 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson	4 hr
Jul 21, 2:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Atchison	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.