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River Flood Warning 37, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this river flood warning at Aug 24, 2007, 10:49 AM CDT for Grundy County, Illinois. It was in force for 65 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2007, 10:49 AM CDT (15:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2007, 4:04 AM CDT
- In force
- 65 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
- Flood severity
- Major
County Grundy County, IL
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Illinois River at Morris (MORI2).
- Action stage
- 13 ft
- Minor stage
- 16 ft
- Moderate stage
- 18 ft
- Major stage
- 22 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05542500, 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 24, 6:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 6:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | LaSalle, Livingston | 82 min |
| Aug 23, 7:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Kankakee | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Kankakee | 57 min |
| Aug 23, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Grundy | 30 min |
| Aug 23, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kankakee, Will | 65 min |
| Aug 23, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ford, Iroquois | 58 min |
| Aug 23, 9:14 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LOT | LaSalle | 5 days |
| Aug 23, 9:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kankakee and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 23, 10:45 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | LOT | Grundy | 62 hr |
| Aug 24, 2:29 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LOT | Cook | 42 hr |
| Aug 24, 2:46 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | LOT | Cook | 28 hr |
| Aug 24, 3:58 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LOT | Kankakee | 4 days |
| Aug 24, 10:49 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LOT | LaSalle | 10 hr |
| Aug 24, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Iroquois | 39 min |
| Aug 23, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lake, Porter | 60 min |
| Aug 23, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Jasper, Newton | 42 min |
| Aug 23, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Newton | 25 min |
| Aug 23, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 48 min |
| Aug 23, 9:14 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LOT | Porter | 8 days |
| Aug 23, 9:14 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LOT | Jasper, Porter | 8 days |
| Aug 23, 10:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Jasper, Newton | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 10:54 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LOT | Lake | 72 hr |
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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.