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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Goodland, KS

September 17, 2025Hitchcock County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this river flood warning at Sep 17, 2025, 8:48 AM CDT for Hitchcock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 17, 2025, 8:48 AM CDT (13:48 UTC)
Expired
Sep 17, 2025, 8:33 PM CDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Hitchcock County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Frenchman Creek at Culbertson (CULN1). The gauge peaked at 8.86 ft at Sep 17, 2025, 3:00 PM CDT.

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Action stage
7 ft
Minor stage
8 ft
Moderate stage
10 ft
Major stage
12 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06835500, 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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Sep 17, 6:24 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 17, 6:24 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 17, 3:35 AM CDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 17, 7:38 AM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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Local storm report, Sep 17, 7:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
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Local storm report, Sep 17, 8:12 AM CDT, 36 minutes before
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Local storm report, Sep 17, 8:13 AM CDT, 35 minutes before
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Local storm report, Sep 17, 8:15 AM CDT, 33 minutes before
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Local storm report, Sep 17, 8:24 AM CDT, 24 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 16, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins50 min
Sep 16, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne50 min
Sep 16, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur48 min
Sep 16, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne41 min
Sep 16, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne49 min
Sep 16, 7:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur, Rawlins26 min
Sep 16, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne47 min
Sep 16, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur, Rawlins40 min
Sep 16, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins29 min
Sep 16, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne48 min
Sep 16, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman, Wallace45 min
Sep 16, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Rawlins46 min
Sep 16, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas66 min
Sep 16, 9:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins43 min
Sep 16, 9:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins25 min
Sep 16, 10:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDecatur, Thomas43 min
Sep 16, 10:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur26 min
Sep 16, 10:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDecatur, Norton48 min
Sep 16, 11:08 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGLDDecatur3 hr
Sep 16, 11:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDNorton30 min
Sep 16, 11:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGraham37 min
Sep 17, 12:03 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWichita27 min
Sep 17, 12:51 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGraham24 min
Sep 16, 7:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDundy, Hitchcock49 min
Sep 16, 7:15 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGLDDundy26 min
Sep 16, 7:41 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDDundy, Hitchcock3 hr
Sep 16, 7:41 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDDundy3 hr
Sep 16, 8:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDHitchcock, Red Willow26 min
Sep 16, 9:03 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGLDHitchcock, Red Willow3 hr
Sep 16, 10:54 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningGLDRed Willow17 hr
Sep 16, 11:01 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningGLDHitchcock17 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.