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River Flood Warning 35, NWS Quad Cities, IA

March 9, 2009Lee County, Iowa; Hancock County, Illinois; Clark County, Missouri

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this river flood warning at Mar 9, 2009, 11:44 AM CDT for Lee County, Iowa; Hancock County, Illinois; Clark County, Missouri. It took effect at Mar 10, 2009, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 3 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 9, 2009, 11:44 AM CDT (16:44 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 10, 2009, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: Mar 13, 2009, 9:25 PM CDT
In force: 3 days
Issued by: NWS Quad Cities, IA
Flood severity: Moderate

Counties Lee County, IA, Hancock County, IL, Clark County, MO

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:49 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 Mississippi River at Keokuk (EOKI4).

Action stage: 14 ft
Minor stage: 16 ft
Moderate stage: 17.5 ft
Major stage: 19 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 9, 3:50 AM CDT, 7 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 3:50 AM CDT, 7 hours 54 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 9, 9:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
950 AM CDT MON MAR 9 2009

IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007-
009-015>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-101000-
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-
950 AM CDT MON MAR 9 2009

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THIS EVENING THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING FOR MUCH
OF THE AREA...

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...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES TO BE IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE AREA
FOR TONIGHT INTO TUESDAY MORNING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL
REDEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING AND CONTINUE INTO EARLY
TUESDAY MORNING. RAIN MAY BE HEAVY AT TIMES...WITH OVERNIGHT TOTALS
IN THE RANGE OF 1 TO 2 INCHES. IT STILL APPEARS THAT THE HEAVIER
RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL MOST LIKELY OCCUR ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE
80 AND EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. WITH CONDITIONS ALREADY
SATURATED...AND STREAMS RUNNING HIGH FROM HEAVY RAIN OVER THE
PAST WEEKEND...ADDITIONAL RAINFALL MAY QUICKLY LEAD TO FLASH
FLOODING. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST FLOOD WATCH STATEMENT FOR UPDATED
INFORMATION.

THERE IS A LOW PROBABILITY OF SMALL HAIL WITH THUNDERSTORMS THAT
DEVELOP BY EARLY EVENING IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI AND FAR SOUTHEAST
IOWA. THE POTENTIAL FOR HAIL WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT WITH
THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF THE
OUTLOOK AREA. CONDITIONS DO NOT LOOK FAVORABLE FOR HAIL TO REACH
SEVERE LEVELS.

MANY AREA RIVERS ARE EXPERIENCING FLOODING....WITH MAJOR FLOODING
FORECAST OR ALREADY TAKING PLACE ON SOME RIVERS. PLEASE SEE THE
LATEST FLOOD STATEMENTS AND FLOOD WARNINGS FOR DETAILS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND
EARLY EVENING EAST OF A LINE FROM DUBUQUE THROUGH MEMPHIS MISSOURI.
A FAST MOVING LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY OVER
EASTERN IOWA TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND MOVE EAST THROUGH NORTHWEST AND
WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS BY EARLY EVENING.  THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER
THREATS WILL BE PENNY SIZE HAIL AND WINDS AROUND 60 MPH.  AN
ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY EAST OF THE
MISSISSIPPI RIVER.

STRONG WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE AREA
LATE TUESDAY NIGHT AND CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY AS LOW PRESSURE
RAPIDLY INTENSIFIES ACROSS THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES. SUSTAINED WINDS
OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH 40 TO 50 MPH GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT.
SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ON TUESDAY.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 8, 8:04 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Lee, Van Buren	15 hr
Mar 8, 9:32 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Des Moines, Louisa	5 days
Mar 8, 9:32 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Des Moines	6 days
Mar 8, 9:32 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Des Moines, Lee	7 days
Mar 9, 4:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	DVN	Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson and 8 more	32 hr
Mar 9, 11:44 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Des Moines, Louisa	4 days
Mar 9, 11:44 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Jones, Linn	58 hr
Mar 9, 5:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Hancock	7 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Iowa, 2009 River Flood Warnings in Illinois, 2009 River Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2009 Every river flood warning in 2009

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.