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River Flood Warning 36, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 26, 2026Atchison County, Leavenworth County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Apr 26, 2026, 10:24 AM CDT for Atchison County, Leavenworth County, Kansas. It took effect at Apr 27, 2026, 1:40 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 26, 2026, 10:24 AM CDT (15:24 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 27, 2026, 1:40 PM CDT
Expired: Apr 26, 2026, 8:51 PM CDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

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 15:26 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 Stranger Creek at Easton (ESTK1).

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 Apr 25, 6:30 PM CDT, 15 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 25, 6:30 PM CDT, 15 hours 54 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
Apr 26, 2:46 AM CDT	Flood Watch	EAX	Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell and 31 more	38 hr
Apr 26, 10:19 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Linn, Livingston	3 days
Apr 26, 10:20 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston	3 days
Apr 26, 10:20 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton	5 days
Apr 26, 10:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Ray	53 hr
Apr 26, 10:26 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll	10 hr
Apr 26, 10:26 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt	10 hr
Apr 26, 10:28 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Buchanan	10 hr
Apr 26, 10:30 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Ray	10 hr
Apr 26, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	50 min
Apr 26, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates	35 min
Apr 26, 4:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	12 min
Apr 26, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry, Jackson, Johnson	51 min
Apr 26, 5:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Bates, Cass, Jackson	3 hr
Apr 26, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry, Johnson	39 min
Apr 26, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, Saline	47 min
Apr 26, 6:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Henry, Johnson	3 hr
Apr 26, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Johnson, Miami	57 min
Apr 26, 4:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Johnson, Miami	25 min
Apr 26, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Linn, Miami	46 min
Apr 26, 4:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Linn	24 min
Apr 26, 5:05 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Johnson, Linn, Miami	3 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.