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River Flood Warning 37, NWS La Crosse, WI

August 8, 2010Crawford County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this river flood warning at Aug 8, 2010, 8:15 PM CDT for Crawford County, Wisconsin. It took effect at Aug 9, 2010, 12:34 AM CDT. It was in force for 33 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 8, 2010, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 9, 2010, 12:34 AM CDT
Expired: Aug 10, 2010, 9:30 AM CDT
In force: 33 hr
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI
Flood severity: Minor

County Crawford County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Kickapoo River at Gays Mills (GMIW3).

Action stage: 11 ft
Minor stage: 13 ft
Moderate stage: 15 ft
Major stage: 17 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 La Crosse, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Aug 8, 3:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 3:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 8, 9:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	ARX	Crawford, Grant, Richland	7 hr
Aug 9, 12:51 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ARX	Crawford, Grant, Richland	4 hr
Aug 9, 12:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Crawford, Richland, Vernon	42 min
Aug 9, 9:34 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ARX	Richland, Vernon	20 hr
Aug 8, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Howard, Winneshiek	51 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Wisconsin, 2010 Every river flood warning in 2010

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.