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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Quad Cities, IA

June 22, 2007Louisa County, Washington County, Iowa

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 2007, 7:09 PM CDT for Louisa County, Washington County, Iowa. It took effect at Jun 22, 2007, 7:18 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr. 7 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 2007, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 22, 2007, 7:18 PM CDT
Expired: Jun 23, 2007, 4:15 AM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Louisa County, IA, Washington County, IA

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 22, 7:54 PM CDT	HEAVY RAIN 0	4 E Richland, IA	NEAR THE WALMART ON HIGHWAY 34 PONDING OF WATER 1 TO 3 INCHES DEEP.
Jun 22, 7:56 PM CDT	HEAVY RAIN 0	Brighton, IA	CORRECTED COUNTY AND STATE. TORRENTIAL DOWNPOUR. VISIBILITY REDUCED TO UNDER A HALF MILE. SOME MIST OR FOG ALSO REPORTED.
Jun 22, 8:00 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Washington, IA	SUBSTANTIAL STREET FLOODING IN WASHINGTON WITH MANY REPORTED WITH SEVERAL INCHES OF WATER AND IMPASSABLE. MANHOLE COVERS REPORTED BLOWN OFF.
Jun 22, 8:04 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Washington, IA	VERY HEAVY RAIN. DITCH AND MINOR STREET FLOODING.
Jun 22, 8:10 PM CDT	HEAVY RAIN 1.6	Washington, IA	RAINFALL OVER THE PAST 2 HOURS. CONSIDERABLE STREET FLOODING.
Jun 22, 8:30 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Ainsworth, IA	EXTREME YARD FLOODING CAVED IN BASEMENT WALL OF A HOUSE IN AINSWORTH.
Jun 22, 9:45 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Columbus Junction, IA	GRAVEL ROAD JUST OUTSIDE OF COLUMBUS JUNCTION INUNDATED WITH A FOOT OF FLOOD WATER. WATER WAS REPORTED TO BE STILL RISING AT THE TIME OF REPORT.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 91 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 795 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KDVN 230018
FFWDVN
IAC107-115-183-230915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
709 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  KEOKUK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SIGOURNEY...
  LOUISA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WAPELLO...COLUMBUS JUNCTION...
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WASHINGTON...

* UNTIL 415 AM CDT SATURDAY

* AT 706 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING DEVELOPING AND 
  MOVING OVER THE WARNED AREA. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE 2 TO 4  
  INCHES OF RAINFALL IN PORTIONS OF THE WARNED AREA THROUGH 10 PM.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WELLMAN...
  SOUTH ENGLISH...RICHMOND...KINROSS...KESWICK...HARPER AND DELTA

FLASH FLOODING MEANS WATER WILL RISE RAPIDLY TO LEVELS CAUSING A
THREAT TO LIFE AND PROPERTY. TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS.

FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY ON CEDAR...CROOKED...AND BIG SLOUGH CREEKS. 
ALSO...THE UPPER REACHES OF THE SKUNK RIVER WILL EXPERIENCE 
SIGNIFICANT RISES.

DO NOT DRIVE ON FLOODED ROADS. MOST FATALITIES OCCUR IN VEHICLES
SWEPT AWAY IN FLOOD WATERS AS SHALLOW AS 1 FOOT.

FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS...HIGHWAYS AND STREETS...
UNDERPASSES AND LOW LYING URBAN AND RURAL AREAS IS LIKELY.

LAT...LON 4119 9232 4120 9235 4148 9234 4147 9172
      4129 9123 4114 9100

$$

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 22, 3:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 3:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
338 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007

.SYNOPSIS...
KEY MESOSCALE FEATURE THIS EVENING IS THE SURFACE BOUNDARY
ROUGHLY LAYING ALONG A LINE FROM NORTH OF AMES TO THE QUAD CITIES
AREA. THUNDERSTORMS ARE FIRING ALONG THIS BOUNDARY IN CENTRAL
IOWA WITHIN AN INSTABILITY AXIS AND AHEAD OF A VERY SLOW MOVING
MID-LEVEL SHORT WAVE TROUGH LOCATED OVER NORTHWEST IA.

&&

.SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...
MAIN FORECAST CONCERN IN THIS TIME FRAME IS PRECIP AMOUNTS...
THOUGH MODEST CHANCES FOR SEVERE WEATHER EXIST WEST OF THE
MISSISSIPPI RIVER THIS EVENING.

HAVE ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT AND EARLY SATURDAY DUE
TO THE COMBINATION OF RAINFALL TODAY AND THE CONTINUED THREAT OF
HEAVY RAIN THROUGH THE NIGHT. PRECIPITABLE WATERS ARE SUFFICIENTLY
HIGH TO SUPPORT THE FLOOD THREAT. AREAS WHERE FLOODING OCCURRED
TODAY WOULD NEED LITTLE RAINFALL TO RE-FLOOD. THE SURFACE
BOUNDARY...WHICH SHOULD HELP FOCUS CONVECTION (EITHER SURFACE-
BASED NEAR THE BOUNDARY THIS EVENING...OR ELEVATED STORMS LATER
TONIGHT) IS ORIENTED GENERALLY ALONG THE MEAN UPPER LEVEL FLOW
SUGGESTING A POTENTIAL FOR TRAINING THUNDERSTORMS.

ONLY DOWNSIDE TO THE THREAT IS THE LACK OF A FOCUSED LOW-LEVEL
JET...THOUGH MODELS INDICATE A CLOSED 850MB LOW DRIFTING ACROSS
THE AREA TONIGHT WHICH SHOULD PROVIDE SUFFICIENT LOW-LEVEL
CONVERGENCE TO MAINTAIN THE STORM THREAT. THE MODELS SUGGEST
PRECIP LINGERS THROUGH PART OF THE DAY TOMORROW...BEFORE DRIER AIR
BEGINS TO SLOWLY PUSH INTO THE REGION TOMORROW NIGHT.

.LONG TERM...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...
BASIC THEME DURING THIS TIME FRAME WILL BE SEASONALLY WARM AND
HUMID AND...OTHER THAN A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE TUESDAY INTO
WEDNESDAY...DRY. WHILE THE MAIN STORM TRACK IS GENERALLY NORTH OF
THE CWA...THE GFS AND UKMET DROP A FRONT AND BRING A WEAK 500MB
TROUGH ACROSS THE AREA WEDNESDAY. WITH SUFFICIENT MOISTURE ALREADY
IN PLACE...MODEST POPS ARE JUSTIFIED.  WOLF

&&

.AVIATION...
ALL TAF SITES HAVE FINALLY BROKEN INTO MVFR OR BETTER CIGS...WITH
CID/MLI STILL PERSISTING MVFR AND DBQ/BRL NOW VFR.  EXPECT A PERIOD
OF VFR CONDITIONS WITH SCT015-025 BKN 040-100 DECKS UNTIL EVENING.
PERIODS OF TSRA WILL AGAIN IMPACT SOME OR ALL TAF SITES
TONIGHT...WITH INTERMITTENT DROPS IN VIS WITH HEAVIER SHRA AS WELL
AS LIGHTNING AND THE CHANCE OF GUSTY WINDS SHOULD ANY TSRA PASS
DIRECTLY OVER THE TAF SITES.  CIGS AND POSSIBLY VIS SHOULD AGAIN
DROP IN WAKE OF THE TSRA TO IFR CONDITIONS AS REMNANT SHRA/TSRA
WORKS ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS...FOLLOWED BY
GRADUALLY LIFTING CIGS/VIS THROUGH MIDDAY TOMORROW.  MAYES

&&

.DVN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
IA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY
     MORNING FOR BENTON-BUCHANAN-CEDAR-CLINTON-DELAWARE-DES
     MOINES-DUBUQUE-HENRY IA-IOWA-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-
     JONES-KEOKUK-LEE-LINN-LOUISA-MUSCATINE-SCOTT-VAN BUREN-
     WASHINGTON.

IL...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY
     MORNING FOR BUREAU-CARROLL-HANCOCK-HENDERSON-HENRY IL-JO
     DAVIESS-MCDONOUGH-MERCER-PUTNAM-ROCK ISLAND-STEPHENSON-
     WARREN-WHITESIDE.

MO...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY
     MORNING FOR CLARK-SCOTLAND.

&&

WOLF/MAYES

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 22, 5:32 AM CDT, 13 hours 37 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
532 AM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007

IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007-
009-015>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-231045-
BUCHANAN-DELAWARE-DUBUQUE-BENTON-LINN-JONES-JACKSON-IOWA-JOHNSON-
CEDAR-CLINTON-MUSCATINE-SCOTT-KEOKUK-WASHINGTON-LOUISA-JEFFERSON-
HENRY IA-DES MOINES-VAN BUREN-LEE-JO DAVIESS-STEPHENSON-CARROLL-
WHITESIDE-ROCK ISLAND-HENRY IL-BUREAU-PUTNAM-MERCER-HENDERSON-
WARREN-HANCOCK-MCDONOUGH-SCOTLAND-CLARK-
532 AM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL
ILLINOIS...NORTHWEST ILLINOIS...WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...EAST
CENTRAL IOWA...NORTHEAST IOWA...SOUTHEAST IOWA AND NORTHEAST
MISSOURI.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE ENTIRE
OUTLOOK AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE WIDESPREAD THIS MORNING MAINLY
OVER PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST IOWA...NORTHEAST
MISSOURI AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING
TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WHILE MOVING OVER SOME OF THE SAME AREAS
REPEATEDLY...THEREBY ENHANCING THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING.
A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON FOR PORTIONS OF
IOWA AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ROUGHLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE
FROM CEDAR RAPIDS...TO MUSCATINE...TO ALEDO. ALONG WITH THE
POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING...THE STORMS WILL BRING FREQUENT AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY STRONG WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 30 AND
50 MPH.

ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER PORTIONS
OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL IOWA THIS AFTERNOON...AND MOVE BACK ACROSS
THE OUTLOOK AREA MID TO LATE AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. IF ENOUGH
CLEARING AND SUBSEQUENT DESTABILIZATION CAN OCCUR AHEAD OF THESE
STORMS THEN A FEW WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE WITH
THE MAIN THREATS BEING LARGE HAIL TO UP TO NICKEL SIZE AND DAMAGING
STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AROUND 60 MPH. THE STORMS WILL ALSO BE CAPABLE
OF PRODUCING FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL LEADING TO POSSIBILITY OF FLASH FLOODING AND RIVER FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ON SATURDAY. THE STORM PREDICTION
CENTER HAS PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST IOWA...WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI OUTLOOKED IN A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE
WEATHER.

MORE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...BUT IT
IS TOO EARLY TO ASSESS THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ANY
REPORTS OF DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL OR HEAVY RAINFALL IN EXCESS
OF 1 INCH AND ASSOCIATED FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
IN THE QUAD CITIES WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 22, 5:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
530 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0529 PM     HEAVY RAIN       BELLE PLAINE            41.90N 92.27W
06/22/2007  M4.25 INCH       BENTON             IA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            RAIN FALL TOTAL SINCE 4 PM...IT IS STILL RAINING

&&

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Local storm report, Jun 22, 6:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
600 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0558 PM     FLASH FLOOD      BLAIRSTOWN              41.91N 92.08W
06/22/2007                   BENTON             IA   EMERGENCY MNGR

            WATER OVER THE ROAD AT 21ST AVE. MANY OTHER STREETS ARE
            FLOODED.

&&

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Local storm report, Jun 22, 6:09 PM CDT, 1 hour before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
609 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0601 PM     FLASH FLOOD      1 S BELLE PLAINE        41.88N 92.27W
06/22/2007                   BENTON             IA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            AREAS OF HWY 21 COVERED WITH WATER UP TO 2 FEET DEEP

&&

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Local storm report, Jun 22, 6:22 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
622 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0615 PM     HEAVY RAIN       BELLE PLAINE            41.90N 92.27W
06/22/2007  M4.07 INCH       BENTON             IA   CO-OP OBSERVER

            RAINFALL AS OF 6 PM.

&&

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Local storm report, Jun 22, 6:48 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
648 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0634 PM     FLASH FLOOD      MARENGO                 41.80N 92.07W
06/22/2007                   IOWA               IA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            MUCH FLOODING IN TOWN. TRAFFIC STOPPED ON HWY 6 DUE TO
            STORMWATER RUNOFF OUT OF A DEVELOPMENT AREA.

0638 PM     HAIL             BASCO                   40.33N 91.20W
06/22/2007  E0.25 INCH       HANCOCK            IL   LAW ENFORCEMENT

0639 PM     HEAVY RAIN       2 W PARNELL             41.58N 92.04W
06/22/2007  E3.00 INCH       IOWA               IA   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

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Local storm report, Jun 22, 7:04 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
704 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0659 PM     FLASH FLOOD      MARENGO                 41.80N 92.07W
06/22/2007                   IOWA               IA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            WIDEPSREAD MAJOR FLOODING...WATER OVER HIGHWAYS AND MANY
            ROADS CLOSED/IMPASSABLE. SANDBAGGING ONGOING AND FLOODING

            WORSE THAN 1993 AND PAST 40+ YEARS. HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES.

&&

BILLN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 7:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Lee	43 min
Jun 22, 7:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	Keokuk, Louisa, Washington	9 hr
Jun 22, 8:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	Henry	9 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.