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River Flood Warning 59, NWS Wichita, KS

June 18, 2025Sedgwick County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this river flood warning at Jun 18, 2025, 3:14 PM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 18, 2025, 3:14 PM CDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2025, 2:51 AM CDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Sedgwick County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 4 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Little Arkansas River near Sedgwick (SEDK1). The gauge peaked at 21.53 ft at Jun 18, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 20 ft
Minor stage: 22 ft
Moderate stage: 25 ft
Major stage: 26 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07144100, 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 Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jun 18, 12:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 12:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 3:30 AM CDT, 11 hours 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 18, 12:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Cowley	46 min
Jun 17, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	36 min
Jun 17, 7:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Cowley	13 hr
Jun 17, 7:57 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Rice	24 hr
Jun 17, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley	45 min
Jun 17, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick	33 min
Jun 17, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Sedgwick	65 min
Jun 17, 8:49 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	47 hr
Jun 17, 8:53 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Chase	37 hr
Jun 17, 9:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno	11 hr
Jun 17, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman, Sumner	24 min
Jun 17, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	22 min
Jun 17, 9:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Chase, Marion	12 hr
Jun 17, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley, Harper, Sumner	48 min
Jun 17, 10:23 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sumner	40 hr
Jun 17, 10:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	12 hr
Jun 17, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	47 min
Jun 17, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley	48 min
Jun 18, 12:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson	65 min
Jun 18, 2:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Kingman	29 hr
Jun 18, 2:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick, Sumner	42 hr
Jun 18, 2:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sumner	52 hr
Jun 18, 2:50 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Cowley	36 hr
Jun 18, 8:12 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	58 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.