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River Flood Warning 24, NWS Topeka, KS

July 26, 2025Clay County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at Jul 26, 2025, 4:53 PM CDT for Clay County, Kansas. It took effect at Jul 26, 2025, 5:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 26, 2025, 4:53 PM CDT (21:53 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 26, 2025, 5:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jul 26, 2025, 10:10 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Clay County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Republican River at Clay Center (CYCK1). The gauge peaked at 15.17 ft at Jul 26, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT.

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Action stage
10 ft
Minor stage
15 ft
Moderate stage
22.5 ft
Major stage
28 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06856600, 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 Jul 25, 6:43 PM CDT, 22 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 6:43 PM CDT, 22 hours 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 10:13 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTOPWashington3 hr
Jul 26, 5:47 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryTOPCloud, Republic, Washington2 hr
Jul 26, 12:28 PM CDTHeat AdvisoryTOPAnderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more3 days

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.