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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Quad Cities, IA

January 15, 2009Whiteside County, Illinois

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this river flood warning at Jan 15, 2009, 10:37 AM CST for Whiteside County, Illinois. It took effect at Jan 16, 2009, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 26 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 15, 2009, 10:37 AM CST (16:37 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 16, 2009, 6:00 PM CST
Expired
Jan 17, 2009, 8:07 PM CST
In force
26 hr
Issued by
NWS Quad Cities, IA
Flood severity
Minor

County Whiteside County, IL

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:38 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 Rock River at Como (CMOI2). The gauge peaked at 9.33 ft at Jan 16, 2009, 6:00 AM CST.

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Action stage
10 ft
Minor stage
12.5 ft
Moderate stage
15.5 ft
Major stage
18 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05443500, 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 Jan 14, 3:00 PM CST, 19 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 14, 3:00 PM CST, 19 hours 37 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.