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River Flood Warning 3, NWS Topeka, KS

April 2, 2025Dickinson County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at Apr 2, 2025, 4:05 PM CDT for Dickinson County, Kansas. It took effect at Apr 2, 2025, 4:57 PM CDT. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 2025, 4:05 PM CDT (21:05 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 2, 2025, 4:57 PM CDT
Expired: Apr 3, 2025, 8:09 AM CDT
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Dickinson County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Chapman Creek near Chapman (CHPK1). The gauge peaked at 20.50 ft at Apr 3, 2025, 1:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 14 ft
Minor stage: 19 ft
Moderate stage: 26 ft
Major stage: 37 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06878000, 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 Apr 2, 2:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 2:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 2, 2:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 2, 10:20 AM CDT, 5 hours 45 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Topeka KS
1020 AM CDT Wed Apr 2 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0955 AM     Flood            5 S Onaga               39.42N 96.16W
04/02/2025                   Pottawatomie       KS   Public

            Water over Jim Creed Road due to flooding of
            the Vermillion Creek.

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Local storm report, Apr 2, 10:59 AM CDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 2, 11:15 AM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 2, 11:27 AM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 1, 8:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Republic	30 min
Apr 1, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Ottawa	37 min
Apr 1, 8:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Republic	33 min
Apr 1, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Cloud, Republic	26 min
Apr 1, 8:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Ottawa	22 min
Apr 1, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Ottawa	46 min
Apr 1, 9:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Ottawa	24 min
Apr 1, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Cloud, Republic	15 min
Apr 1, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Republic, Washington	17 min
Apr 1, 9:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Geary	33 min
Apr 1, 9:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Anderson	17 min
Apr 1, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Clay, Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley	48 min
Apr 1, 9:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Lyon	30 min
Apr 1, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Ottawa	39 min
Apr 1, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, Osage	39 min
Apr 1, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha	58 min
Apr 1, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley	50 min
Apr 1, 10:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TOP	Dickinson, Ottawa	34 min
Apr 1, 10:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Franklin	35 min
Apr 1, 10:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Ottawa, Riley	3 hr
Apr 1, 10:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson	20 min
Apr 1, 11:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Brown, Jackson, Nemaha, Pottawatomie	50 min
Apr 1, 11:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Clay, Geary, Riley	4 hr
Apr 1, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley	46 min
Apr 1, 11:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Ottawa	35 min
Apr 1, 11:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Brown	50 min
Apr 1, 11:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley	35 min
Apr 2, 12:03 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Ottawa	3 hr
Apr 2, 12:13 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Pottawatomie	3 hr
Apr 2, 12:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley	32 min
Apr 2, 12:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Pottawatomie	26 min
Apr 2, 12:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Ottawa	22 min
Apr 2, 1:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	96 min
Apr 2, 1:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Dickinson	24 min
Apr 2, 1:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Riley	28 min
Apr 2, 2:52 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha and 3 more	7 hr
Apr 2, 3:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee	26 min
Apr 2, 3:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon	36 min
Apr 2, 4:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Osage	59 min
Apr 2, 4:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Coffey	23 min
Apr 2, 4:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Osage	51 min
Apr 2, 7:47 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Riley	8 hr
Apr 2, 10:11 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	6 hr
Apr 2, 10:43 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	13 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.