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River Flood Warning 29, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this river flood warning at Aug 23, 2007, 10:58 AM CDT for Cook County, Illinois. It took effect at Aug 24, 2007, 4:12 AM CDT. It was in force for 4 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 2007, 10:58 AM CDT (15:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 24, 2007, 4:12 AM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2007, 8:53 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 days
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Cook County, IL
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:00 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.
The river
Written for the forecast point Des Plaines River at Riverside (RVRI2).
- Action stage
- 7 ft
- Minor stage
- 7.5 ft
- Moderate stage
- 8 ft
- Major stage
- 9 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05532500, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this river flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Chicago, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Aug 23, 6:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 6:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lee | 54 min |
| Aug 22, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ogle | 26 min |
| Aug 22, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | DeKalb, LaSalle | 73 min |
| Aug 22, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Grundy, Kendall | 38 min |
| Aug 22, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kane | 48 min |
| Aug 22, 9:29 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LOT | Winnebago | 9 days |
| Aug 22, 9:29 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LOT | Winnebago | 25 hr |
| Aug 22, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Will | 93 min |
| Aug 22, 9:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Grundy, Kendall, LaSalle | 4 hr |
| Aug 22, 10:02 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 118 min | |
| Aug 22, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, DuPage | 66 min |
| Aug 22, 10:10 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | LOT | LaSalle | 24 hr |
| Aug 22, 10:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Cook, Will | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 3:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | DeKalb, Kane | 23 min |
| Aug 23, 4:15 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 45 min | |
| Aug 23, 12:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LOT | Boone, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois and 10 more | 40 hr |
| Aug 23, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lee, Ogle | 96 min |
| Aug 23, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | LaSalle, Livingston | 77 min |
| Aug 23, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | DeKalb | 58 min |
| Aug 23, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kane | 75 min |
| Aug 23, 2:18 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 117 min | |
| Aug 23, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Grundy, Kendall | 57 min |
| Aug 23, 2:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | DeKalb, Kane | 46 min |
| Aug 23, 2:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Lee, Ogle | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, Will | 95 min |
| Aug 23, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | DuPage | 64 min |
| Aug 23, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook | 78 min |
| Aug 23, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Cook, DuPage | 39 min |
| Aug 23, 3:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Cook, Will | 29 min |
| Aug 23, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kankakee | 22 min |
| Aug 23, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kane | 42 min |
| Aug 23, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook | 67 min |
| Aug 23, 5:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lee | 39 min |
| Aug 23, 5:24 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 2 hr | |
| Aug 23, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | DuPage, Kane | 54 min |
| Aug 23, 5:37 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LOT | DeKalb | 3 days |
| Aug 23, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kendall, LaSalle | 58 min |
| Aug 23, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Will | 54 min |
| Aug 23, 6:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Grundy, Kendall, LaSalle, Will | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 6:34 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 108 min | |
| Aug 23, 6:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Cook | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook | 61 min |
| Aug 23, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Grundy, Kankakee, Will | 70 min |
| Aug 22, 11:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Lake | 4 hr |
| Aug 22, 11:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Jasper, Lake, Porter | 35 min |
| Aug 23, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lake, Porter | 53 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.