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River Flood Warning 29, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this river flood warning at Mar 12, 2008, 10:39 AM CDT for Clinton County, Scott County, Iowa. It took effect at Mar 13, 2008, 9:04 PM CDT. It was in force for 16 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 2008, 10:39 AM CDT (15:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 13, 2008, 9:04 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2008, 3:47 AM CDT
- In force
- 16 days
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Flood severity
- Moderate
Counties Clinton County, IA, Scott County, IA
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:36 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 Wapsipinicon River near DeWitt (DEWI4).
- Action stage
- 10 ft
- Minor stage
- 11 ft
- Moderate stage
- 11.5 ft
- Major stage
- 12.5 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05422000, 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 Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Mar 12, 3:30 AM CDT, 7 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 3:30 AM CDT, 7 hours 9 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 12, 4:57 AM CDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 457 AM CDT WED MAR 12 2008 IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007- 009-015>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-131000- BENTON IA-BUCHANAN IA-BUREAU IL-CARROLL IL-CEDAR IA-CLARK MO- CLINTON IA-DELAWARE IA-DES MOINES IA-DUBUQUE IA-HANCOCK IL- HENDERSON IL-HENRY IA-HENRY IL-IOWA IA-JACKSON IA-JEFFERSON IA- JO DAVIESS IL-JOHNSON IA-JONES IA-KEOKUK IA-LEE IA-LINN IA-LOUISA IA- MCDONOUGH IL-MERCER IL-MUSCATINE IA-PUTNAM IL-ROCK ISLAND IL- SCOTLAND MO-SCOTT IA-STEPHENSON IL-VAN BUREN IA-WARREN IL- WASHINGTON IA-WHITESIDE IL- 457 AM CDT WED MAR 12 2008 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 WARM TEMPERATURES AND MELTING SNOW WILL CONTINUE THE THREAT OF ICE JAM FLOODING ON TRIBUTARY RIVERS. THE GREATEST THREAT IS ON THE ROCK RIVER FROM STERLING TO THE QUAD CITIES...WHERE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT. MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND IN THE LATEST FLOOD WATCH PRODUCT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY WARMING TEMPERATURES AND SNOW MELT THIS WEEK WILL RESULT IN RISING LEVELS ON AREA RIVERS. THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THAT SOME RIVERS MAY REACH OR EXCEED FLOOD STAGE BY LATE WEEK AND OVER THE WEEKEND...AND THERE IS THE CONTINUED POTENTIAL FOR ICE JAM FLOODING ON RIVERS WITH REMAINING ICE COVER. A STORM SYSTEM PASSING SOUTH OF THE AREA MAY PRODUCE RAIN...SNOW OR BOTH IN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST IOWA...NORTHEAST MISSOURI AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING. THERE IS STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY IN HOW FAR NORTH OR SOUTH THE PRECIPITATION FROM THIS SYSTEM WILL TRACK...AS WELL AS HOW MUCH SNOW OR RAIN MAY FALL. LONGER RANGE SIGNALS SUGGEST AN EVEN LARGER STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE UP OUT OF THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES AND ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE MIDWEST EARLY NEXT WEEK. THIS SYSTEM MAY HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO INTERACT WITH GULF MOISTURE AND PRODUCE SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF RAIN...SNOW OR BOTH IN OR SOMEWHERE NEAR THE AREA MONDAY INTO TUESDAY. IF THIS PRECIPITATION OCCURS DURING THIS PERIOD...IT WILL BE WHEN AREA RIVERS ARE ALREADY SWOLLEN BY SNOWMELT OR BEING AFFECTED BY ICE JAMS. THIS WOULD AGGRAVATE AND WORSEN ANY ONGOING FLOODING SITUATIONS. SINCE THIS SYSTEM HAS YET TO DEVELOP...THE EXACT PLACEMENT...AMOUNT AND TYPE OF PRECIPITATION IS STILL TO BE DETERMINED. STAY TUNED FOR LATER FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS CONCERNING THESE SYSTEMS FOR FRIDAY NIGHT AND EARLY NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY OR TONIGHT. DLS/12
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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.