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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Quad Cities, IA
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.
- 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.