severe · expected · likely
Flood Warning
Lyon, KS; Osage, KS
Issued Oct 1, 7:50 PM CDT by NWS Topeka KS · in effect until Oct 3, 1:00 AM CDT
What to do
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/.
Official text
Flood Warning issued October 1 at 7:50PM CDT until October 3 at 1:00AM CDT by NWS Topeka KS
...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...Moderate flooding is forecast. * WHERE...Marais Des Cygnes River above Reading. * WHEN...From this evening to late Friday night. * IMPACTS...At 21.0 feet, County Road Y 5 near the gage floods, 3 miles north of Reading. At 23.0 feet, Overlow on the right bank is in several swift channels over Road Y 5, 3 miles north of Reading. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - At 7:45 PM CDT Thursday the stage was 10.9 feet. - Forecast...The river is expected to rise above flood stage late this evening to a crest of 22.2 feet tomorrow morning. It will then fall below flood stage early tomorrow afternoon. - Flood stage is 19.0 feet.