| Flood Impacts |
| 30.0 | Record flood is in progress. Possible concern about the former IPL Power Plant even though it is located above the 100 year flood plain. Immense flood destruction to roads, agricultural lands, oil fields and river cabins. Flood waters overtop any remaining agricultural levees. Evacuation is necessary of people and livestock. |
| 27.0 | A near record flood is in progress. Water level is at a height not seen since January 2005. Evacuations are necessary. River cabins are destroyed. Great damage occurs to rural county road system. State Road 56 begins to flood in Bowman area. Flooding may damage railroads. Flood waters overtop almost all levees in the Petersburg area. |
| 26.0 | January 2005 was the last time that the White River reached 26 feet. Dodge City area floods extensively. The January 2005 flood quickly passed this level and exceeded 27.5 feet. Nobody remained in Dodge City. |
| 25.0 | A major flood is in progress. Emergency flood fighting is needed. Evacuations would begin from river cabins in Dodge City. Livestock must be moved. |
| 23.0 | Extensive flooding is progress affecting agricultural and rural residential areas. Several rural county roads flood. A few residents may move out in an area locally known as Dodge City. Several small oil fields are inaccessible. During agricultural season much flood damage can occur. High water isolates some river cabin residents. |
| 21.0 | Flooding affects higher bottomlands and may affect a few residents in an area known as Dodge City. State Road 257 south of Washington completely floods at this level if Shoals remains above 15 feet. |
| 19.0 | Low bottomlands flood and flooding begins on higher bottomlands. State Road 257 begins to flood if Shoals gage reading is between 15 and 17 feet. Private levees may be overtopped in many cases. |
| 17.0 | Flooding affects low agricultural lands, low oil fields and closes a few local county roads. In agricultural season, farmers are very concerned at this stage. |
| 16.0 | Flooding affects agricultural lands. |
| 15.0 | Agricultural land near the confluence of the White and East Fort White Rivers begins to flood. |
