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River Flood Warning 171, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this river flood warning at Jun 15, 2008, 11:26 PM CDT for Polk County, Iowa. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2008, 11:26 PM CDT (04:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2008, 11:20 AM CDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Polk County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Fourmile Creek at Des Moines Easton Blvd (DFMI4).
- Action stage
- 9 ft
- Minor stage
- 12.5 ft
- Moderate stage
- 14 ft
- Major stage
- 16 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05485640, 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 Des Moines, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jun 15, 6:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 6:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before
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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.