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River Flood Warning 101, NWS Des Moines, IA

June 13, 2010Lucas County, Wayne County, Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this river flood warning at Jun 13, 2010, 5:03 PM CDT for Lucas County, Wayne County, Iowa. It took effect at Jun 14, 2010, 4:36 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2010, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 14, 2010, 4:36 AM CDT
Expired: Jun 13, 2010, 9:23 PM CDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Des Moines, IA
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Lucas County, IA, Wayne County, IA

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 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 Chariton River near Chariton (CHTI4). The gauge peaked at 17.68 ft at Jun 14, 2010, 9:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 16 ft
Minor stage: 19.5 ft
Moderate stage: 26 ft
Major stage: 29 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06903400, 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 Des Moines, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jun 12, 6:57 PM CDT, 22 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 6:57 PM CDT, 22 hours 6 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 3:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	DMX	Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 25 more	27 hr
Jun 13, 10:03 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	DMX	Jasper, Marshall, Poweshiek, Story, Tama	3 hr
Jun 13, 10:11 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	DMX	Audubon, Carroll	3 hr
Jun 13, 10:52 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	DMX	Madison, Warren	53 hr
Jun 13, 10:52 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	DMX	Warren	11 hr
Jun 13, 12:58 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DMX	Polk	4 hr
Jun 13, 2:40 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DMX	Polk	37 hr
Jun 13, 5:03 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DMX	Decatur	26 hr
Jun 13, 5:03 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DMX	Appanoose, Wayne	4 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Iowa, 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.