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River Flood Warning 116, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this river flood warning at Jun 19, 2010, 9:14 AM CDT for Mahaska County, Marion County, Iowa. It took effect at Jun 21, 2010, 6:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 2010, 9:14 AM CDT (14:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 21, 2010, 6:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2010, 10:41 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Mahaska County, IA, Marion County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Cedar Creek near Bussey (BSSI4). The gauge peaked at 16.73 ft at Jun 19, 2010, 4:00 AM CDT.
- Action stage
- 16 ft
- Minor stage
- 25 ft
- Moderate stage
- 30 ft
- Major stage
- 32 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05489000, 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 19, 6:44 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 6:44 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 18, 7:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Marion | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 7:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Clarke, Union | 4 hr |
| Jun 18, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jasper, Mahaska, Marion, Poweshiek | 40 min |
| Jun 18, 7:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Clarke, Decatur, Lucas, Wayne | 24 min |
| Jun 18, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Lucas, Monroe, Wayne | 39 min |
| Jun 18, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Clarke, Decatur, Lucas, Wayne | 49 min |
| Jun 18, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Wayne | 31 min |
| Jun 18, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Lucas, Monroe, Wayne | 16 min |
| Jun 18, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Davis, Lucas, Monroe, Wapello, Wayne | 53 min |
| Jun 18, 8:26 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DMX | Decatur, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 8:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Davis | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 8:55 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | DMX | Boone, Hamilton, Webster | 19 days |
| Jun 18, 8:55 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | DMX | Madison, Warren | 3 days |
| Jun 18, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Davis, Wayne | 44 min |
| Jun 18, 10:27 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DMX | Wayne | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 11:38 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Wayne | 17 hr |
| Jun 19, 4:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 38 more | 54 hr |
| Jun 19, 4:03 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Black Hawk, Boone, Cass and 25 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 19, 4:08 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Wapello | 79 days |
| Jun 19, 4:08 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DMX | Wapello | 80 days |
| Jun 19, 8:17 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DMX | Wright | 49 hr |
Nearby
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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.