Wichita, Kansas

Regional Weather Alerts


     

Alert: Flood Warning
Area(s): Reno, KS; Rice, KS
Effective: 11apeor43ap -> 14aaeor20aa
Onset: 11apeor43ap -> 12aaeor45aa
Severity: Severe
Certainty: Observed
Urgency: Immediate
Issued By: NWS Wichita KS on 11apeor43ap
Headline: Flood Warning issued September 11 at 7:43PM CDT until September 14 at 6:20AM CDT by NWS Wichita KS
Description: ...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Kansas...

Cow Creek near Hutchinson affecting Rice and Reno Counties.

* WHAT...Moderate flooding is occurring and moderate flooding is
forecast.

* WHERE...Cow Creek near Hutchinson.

* WHEN...Until Sunday morning.

* IMPACTS...At 11.5 feet, On 82nd Avenue the road floods between
Wilson Road and Pennington Road.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 7:15 PM CDT Thursday the stage was 10.9 feet and rising.
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise to a crest of 11.3
feet early tomorrow afternoon. It will then fall below flood
stage Saturday evening.
- Flood stage is 9.5 feet.

Alert: Flood Warning
Area(s): Ottawa, KS
Effective: 11aaeor56aa -> 13aaeor25aa
Onset: 11aaeor56aa -> 12aaeor0aa
Severity: Severe
Certainty: Observed
Urgency: Immediate
Issued By: NWS Topeka KS on 11aaeor56aa
Headline: Flood Warning issued September 11 at 8:56AM CDT until September 13 at 4:25AM CDT by NWS Topeka KS
Description: ...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Kansas...

Salt Creek near Ada affecting Ottawa County.

* WHAT...Moderate flooding is occurring and moderate flooding is
forecast. This approaches the flood of record.

* WHERE...Salt Creek near Ada.

* WHEN...Until early Saturday morning.

* IMPACTS...At 18.0 feet, Minor low land flooding along the Salt
Creek.
At 20.0 feet, 50th Road just south of the bridge over the Salt
Creek floods.
At 20.2 feet, Deck of 50th Road bridge over the Salt Creek floods.
At 21.0 feet, Flood waters are over one half mile wide over
cultivated farm land 3 miles east southeast of the town of Ada.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 7:45 AM CDT Thursday the stage was 21.0 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to fall below flood stage
tomorrow afternoon and continue falling to 13.6 feet Tuesday
morning.
- Flood stage is 18.0 feet.