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River Flood Warning 187, NWS Kansas City, MO

September 16, 2026Atchison County, Leavenworth County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Sep 16, 2026, 9:31 AM CDT for Atchison County, Leavenworth County, Kansas. It took effect at Sep 16, 2026, 4:53 PM CDT. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 16, 2026, 9:31 AM CDT (14:31 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 16, 2026, 4:53 PM CDT
Expired: Sep 17, 2026, 7:37 AM CDT
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Moderate

Counties Atchison County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Stranger Creek at Easton (ESTK1). The gauge peaked at 13.11 ft at Sep 16, 2026, 11:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 17 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 23 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06891850, 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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Sep 16, 6:48 AM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 6:48 AM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 16, 8:01 AM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 16, 8:34 AM CDT, 57 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 15, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Macon, Randolph	38 min
Sep 15, 7:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Grundy, Harrison, Mercer	4 hr
Sep 15, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	30 min
Sep 15, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clinton, DeKalb	22 min
Sep 15, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Daviess, Grundy, Linn, Livingston	52 min
Sep 15, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	30 min
Sep 15, 7:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Cass, Jackson	4 hr
Sep 15, 8:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Jackson	3 hr
Sep 15, 8:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	4 hr
Sep 15, 9:04 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Adair, Linn, Macon, Mercer, Putnam, Schuyler and 1 more	5 hr
Sep 15, 10:41 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Buchanan	35 hr
Sep 15, 10:41 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Platte	5 days
Sep 15, 10:42 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Platte	6 days
Sep 15, 10:43 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Daviess, Gentry	61 hr
Sep 15, 10:44 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Daviess, Livingston	3 days
Sep 15, 10:44 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Linn, Livingston	3 days
Sep 15, 10:44 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston	41 hr
Sep 15, 10:45 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton	5 days
Sep 16, 1:15 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Adair, Chariton, Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Macon and 4 more	8 hr
Sep 16, 9:14 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Adair, Chariton, Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Macon and 4 more	6 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.