Flood Warning
NWS Topeka KS ยท US
Details
Flood Warning In Effect From This Morning To Thursday Morning
- Event
- Flood Warning
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Severe
- Certainty
- Likely
- Response
- Avoid
Description
Overview
...The National Weather Service in Topeka has issued a Flood Warning for the following rivers in Kansas... Marais Des Cygnes River above Reading affecting Lyon and Osage Counties.
What
Minor flooding is forecast.
Where
Marais Des Cygnes River above Reading.
When
From this morning to Thursday morning.
Impacts
At 19.0 feet, Low lying areas along the river flood. At 21.0 feet, County Road Y 5 near the gage floods, 3 miles north of Reading.
Additional details
- At 5:45 AM CDT Wednesday the stage was 17.0 feet. - Forecast...The river is expected to rise above flood stage late this morning to a crest of 20.5 feet this afternoon. It will then fall below flood stage late this afternoon. - Flood stage is 19.0 feet.
Instructions
Motorists should not attempt to drive around barricades or drive cars through flooded areas. This product along with additional weather and stream information is available at www.weather.gov/top/.
Affected areas
- Lyon County, KS
- Osage County, KS
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Topeka KS
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~33s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2MXYDX488603PB790T33EKF
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.1cca4c6bcaee36a2d037e2c59f7f3ab6c7ef6d5d.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Topeka KS
- AWIPS ID
- CAPTOP
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.8442
- WMO heading
- XOUS53
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 53
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | FLW |
| NationalWeatherService | FLW |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | FLWTOP |
| WMOidentifier | WGUS43 KTOP 161059 |
| NWSheadline | FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM THIS MORNING TO THURSDAY MORNING |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| VTEC | /O.NEW.KTOP.FL.W.0052.260916T1432Z-260917T1100Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-17T06:00:00-05:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Lyon County, KS
- Osage County, KS
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 020111 |
| SAME | 020139 |
| UGC | KSC111 |
| UGC | KSC139 |
- Polygons
- 38.56,-96.02 38.6,-95.96 38.53,-95.86 38.49,-95.92 38.56,-96.02