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Flood Warning — NWS Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO

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Flood Warning issued November 3 at 6:57PM CST until November 8 at 6:00AM CST by NWS Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO

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The NWS issued a flood warning for the Grand River near Sumner, Missouri, affecting Linn, Chariton, Livingston, and Carroll counties. Moderate flooding is forecast from Wednesday evening through Sunday morning, with rural land and roads among the areas described as potentially affected.

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  • Affected location: Grand River near Sumner, Missouri
Luper Cemetery is one of the oldest pioneer cemeteries in the southern Willamette Valley. It is located west of River Road and north of West Beacon Drive on rich farm lands a couple feet higher than the surrounding Willamette/McKenzie floodplain. It is this rich soil that drew many of the pioneers who are buried in the cemetery to the Willamette Valley in the mid-1800s. Most of the records, and markers that remain, indicate that interments occurred from the 1850s into the early 1900s. In the mid
Illustrative image: Luper Cemetery is one of the oldest pioneer cemeteries in the southern Willamette Valley. It is located west of River Road and north of West Beacon Drive on rich farm lands a couple feet higher than the surrounding Willamette/McKenzie floodplain. It is this rich soil that drew many of the pioneers who are buried in the cemetery to the Willamette Valley in the mid-1800s. Most of the records, and markers that remain, indicate that interments occurred from the 1850s into the early 1900s. In the mid — Rick Obst/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
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The warning forecasts river flooding across four Missouri counties, including possible inundation of rural land and roads.

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Confidence
8/10
Geographic reach
3/10
Global importance
2/10
Impact magnitude
3/10
Urgency
5/10

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