(KLZA)-- Moderate flooding is now forecast along the Missouri River following recent rains in the river basin.
Crests of as much as 8-feet above flood stage are possible from Nebraska City downstream through Atchison through late week.
At Rulo Monday morning, where flood stage is 17 feet, the river reading was 19.75 feet. The crest is predicted at 24.1 feet Friday morning.
At Rulo the River level has topped 24 feet eight times, this would be the 6th time since 2000.
At Brownville Monday morning the river was 18.53 feet. Flood stage is 33 feet. The crest is forecast for Friday morning at 40.5 feet, 7.5 feet above flood stage.
At Nebraska City the river reading was 18.53 feet Monday morning with the crest predicted at 22.4 feet early Friday morning. Flood stage is 17 feet.
The crest is predicted at 25.2 feet at St. Joseph Thursday which is 8.2 feet above the flood stage of 17 feet.
At Atchision, Kansas, the crest is forecast to reach 26.6 feet Thursday afternoon which is 4.6 feet above flood stage.
Major flooding is forecast along the Tarkio River. The river is forecast to rise above flood stage Tuesday morning and rise to 27.1 -feet by early Wednesday morning before falling below flood stage Wednesday evening.
At 26.5 feet flood waters reach the intersection of State Highway J and U.S. Highway 59 on the west edge of Fairfax.
At 25 feet levees in the vicinity of Fairfax are overtopped causing flooding of farmland, homesteads and roads. At 19 feet flooding begins in the vicinity of Corning. At 18 feet U.S. Highway 59 north of Fairfax begins to flood with low-lying farm fields starting to flood at 17 feet.
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