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River Flood Warning 5, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at Mar 6, 2026, 5:11 PM CST for Anderson County, Kansas. It took effect at Mar 6, 2026, 5:45 PM CST. It was in force for 19 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 2026, 5:11 PM CST (23:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 6, 2026, 5:45 PM CST
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2026, 12:53 PM CST
- In force
- 19 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Anderson County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Pottawatomie Creek near Garnett (GRTK1).
- Action stage
- 21 ft
- Minor stage
- 26 ft
- Moderate stage
- 32 ft
- Major stage
- 34 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06914000, 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 Mar 6, 4:53 PM CST, 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 6, 4:53 PM CST, 18 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Topeka KS 146 PM CST Fri Mar 6 2026 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-072000- Republic-Washington-Marshall-Nemaha-Brown-Cloud-Clay-Riley- Pottawatomie-Jackson-Jefferson-Ottawa-Dickinson-Geary-Morris- Wabaunsee-Shawnee-Douglas-Lyon-Osage-Franklin-Coffey-Anderson- 146 PM CST Fri Mar 6 2026 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central Kansas, east central Kansas, north central Kansas, and northeast Kansas. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight Thunderstorms will develop across north central KS, then move east along a cold front across northeast east central KS this evening. Some of the storms may be severe with the primary hazards being damaging wind gusts and large hail. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters may be needed this afternoon and this evening.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 4:34 PM CST, 37 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Mar 5, 7:55 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Riley | 35 min |
| Mar 5, 8:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Geary, Riley | 22 min |
| Mar 5, 8:18 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Morris | 27 min |
| Mar 5, 8:27 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Riley | 18 min |
| Mar 5, 8:28 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Riley | 32 min |
| Mar 5, 8:30 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Wabaunsee | 30 min |
| Mar 5, 8:41 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Clay | 34 min |
| Mar 5, 8:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee | 23 min |
| Mar 5, 8:58 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Marshall | 47 min |
| Mar 5, 9:02 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Nemaha | 28 min |
| Mar 5, 9:04 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Atchison | 26 min |
| Mar 5, 9:08 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Pottawatomie | 37 min |
| Mar 5, 10:54 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Nemaha | 36 min |
| Mar 6, 12:56 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Coffey, Lyon | 34 min |
| Mar 6, 1:10 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Franklin, Osage | 35 min |
| Mar 6, 1:53 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Coffey, Franklin, Lyon, Osage | 5 hr |
| Mar 6, 8:51 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Franklin | 5 hr |
| Mar 6, 4:34 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Republic | 11 min |
| Mar 6, 5:29 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Ottawa | 31 min |
| Mar 6, 5:49 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Republic | 26 min |
| Mar 6, 5:54 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Clay | 21 min |
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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.