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Service Change Notice
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
155 PM CDT Fri Jun 13 2025


To:       Subscribers:
            -NOAA Weather Wire Service
            -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
            -Family Of Services
          Other NWS Partners, Users and Employees

From:     Scott Watson
          Senior Service Hydrologist
          Weather Forecast Office Kansas City/Pleasant Hill, MO

Subject:  New river forecast services for the Kansas River near Lake
Quivira in Kansas City, Kansas (KLQK1) to replace forecast services
for the Kansas River at Turner Bridge (TNRK1).

Effective at 1300 Coordinated Universal Time on July 15, 2025, the
National Weather Service will begin providing daily river forecast
services for the Kansas River near Lake Quivira (KLQK1). At that
time, forecast services currently based on data from the Kansas
River at Turner Bridge (TNRK1) will transition to use data from the
new KLQK1 location, which is approximately five miles upstream of
TNRK1. Flood impact categories for KLQK1 have been aligned with
documented impacts at TNRK1.

Beginning July 15, 2025, areas along the Kansas River from Bonner
Springs, KS to Turner Bridge in Kansas City, KS will receive river
forecasts and warning services based on the KLQK1 river gage.

The flood levels for the Kansas River near Lake Quivira (KLQK1) are
as follows:

        Action Stage: 23 feet
   Minor Flood Stage: 26 feet
Moderate Flood Stage: 33 feet
   Major Flood Stage: 38 feet

These changes will affect the following NWS text products:

  STLESFEAX - Probabilistic Hydrologic Outlook
  STLESFEAX - Hydrologic Outlook
  STLFLWEAX - River Flood Warning
  STLFLSEAX - River Flood Statement

This change has been coordinated with the US Geological Survey,
the US Army Corps of Engineers, the Kaw Valley Levee District,
and Wyandotte County, KS Emergency Management.

The National Weather Service welcomes public feedback. If you
have any questions or comments on this change, please contact:

Scott Watson
NWS Forecast Office
1803 North 7 Highway
Pleasant Hill, MO 64080

Phone: 816-540-6132
email: scott.watson@noaa.gov

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