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River Flood Warning 80, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this river flood warning at Aug 27, 2025, 7:56 AM CDT for Chase County, Kansas. It took effect at Aug 29, 2025, 3:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 2025, 7:56 AM CDT (12:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 29, 2025, 3:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2025, 3:11 AM CDT
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Chase County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Cottonwood River at Cottonwood Falls (CTWK1).
- Action stage
- 7 ft
- Minor stage
- 9 ft
- Moderate stage
- 11 ft
- Major stage
- 18 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 Aug 27, 6:06 AM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 27, 6:06 AM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 7:56 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Chase, Lyon | 64 hr |
| Aug 27, 7:56 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho | 25 hr |
| Aug 27, 7:56 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Reno, Rice | 48 hr |
| Aug 27, 12:20 PM CDT | Flood Watch | ICT | Allen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 17 more | 23 hr |
| Aug 27, 1:58 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno | 3 days |
| Aug 27, 1:58 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey | 4 days |
| Aug 27, 2:04 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 50 hr |
| Aug 27, 2:04 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 5 days |
| Aug 27, 2:05 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 19 hr |
| Aug 27, 2:06 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 18 hr |
| Aug 27, 2:06 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 18 hr |
| Aug 27, 2:08 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Wilson | 19 hr |
| Aug 27, 2:09 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Wilson | 49 hr |
| Aug 27, 2:09 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Montgomery, Wilson | 69 hr |
| Aug 27, 2:14 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Cowley | 4 days |
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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.