Kansas weather instruments

24 of 2,375 instruments in Kansas: at a river or reservoir gauge

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1 alert in force in Kansas

Flash Flood Warning1

Flash Flood Warning

Until Sep 24, 5:00 AM CDT

Grant, KS; Hamilton, KS; Kearny, KS; Morton, KS; Stanton, KS

KSSevereImmediateLikelyIn force from Sep 24, 12:53 AM CDT

The full text and what to do

The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for... Northwestern Grant County in southwestern Kansas... Southeastern Hamilton County in southwestern Kansas... Western Kearny County in southwestern Kansas... Northeastern Morton County in southwestern Kansas... Eastern Stanton County in southwestern Kansas...

* Until 500 AM CDT /400 AM MDT/.

* At 1253 AM CDT /1153 PM MDT/, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between 2 and 3 inches of rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.

HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as other poor drainage and low-lying areas.

* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include... Ulysses, Kendall and Big Bow.

What to do

Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles.

Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the dangers of flooding.

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What stands in Kansas

Every kind of place an instrument stands at in Kansas, and how many stand at each.

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In a volunteer observer's own ground1,937 At a cooperative observer's station288 At an airfield65 Beside a road52 At a river or reservoir gauge24 At a dam4 At a reservoir2 On a farm or research station2 A remote fire weather station1

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Ordered by name. Standing is three times the mountains forecast from an instrument plus the places that read it. It measures how much of the network depends on it, not how well it reports.By nameBy standing

Abrams ScanABRK1 / 37.131, -97.086 / 1,194 ft Arkansas River At KendallKENK1 / 37.930, -101.549 / 3,140 ftrank1212of 2,375 Big Blue River AT Blue RapidsBLRK1 / 39.689, -96.642 / 1,119 ft Big Hill Creek AT Big Hill LakeBIGK1 / 37.270, -95.470 / 876 ft Centralia Lake ScanCTRK1 / 39.700, -96.163 / 1,302 ft Concordia 2SSECDAK1 / 39.539, -97.656 / 1,539 ft Cowskin Creek AT Wichita at KelloggKEGK1 / 37.666, -97.458 / 1,325 ftrank1212of 2,375 CRN Site Manhattan 6 SSWMKHK1 / 39.103, -96.610 / 1,135 ftrank1212of 2,375 Elk River AT Elk City LakeECLK1 / 37.283, -95.800 / 797 ft Elkhart Remote Automated Weather SystemCGLK1 / 37.141, -101.911 / 3,543 ftrank1212of 2,375 Fall River AT Fall River LakeFLLK1 / 37.647, -96.078 / 1,020 ft Ku-Nesa ScanKUNK1 / 39.051, -95.191 / 1,102 ftrank11of 2,375 Lawrence 6NE - KU Field [CCOOP]KUSK1 / 39.048, -95.193 / 1,086 ft Marais Des Cygnes River 1 NW OsawatomieOSMK1 / 38.504, -94.960 / 869 ft Mulberry Creek 3 W SalinaSLNK1 / 38.844, -97.668 / 1,247 ftrank22of 2,375 Neosho River At Council Grove LakeCNGK1 / 38.676, -96.510 / 1,325 ft Oakley 19 SSWSVRK1 / 38.870, -100.963 / 2,884 ft Phillipsburg - KirwinKRNK1 / 39.665, -99.195 / 1,751 ft Phillipsburg ScanPHBK1 / 39.786, -99.329 / 1,986 ft PRAIRIE DOG CREEK 4 E Clayton 4eCLNK1 / 39.767, -100.100 / 2,362 ft Quivera Remote Automated Weather StationQNRK1 / 38.167, -98.500 / 1,768 ftrank22of 2,375 South Fork Solomon 1 S OsborneOSBK1 / 39.450, -98.700 / 1,588 ftrank1212of 2,375 StatelineTRDK1 / 38.245, -94.668 / 810 ft Tall Grass Prairie DcpTGSK1 / 38.435, -96.561 / 1,316 ftrank22of 2,375