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River Flood Warning 170, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this river flood warning at Jul 18, 2010, 12:45 PM CDT for Madison County, Warren County, Iowa. It took effect at Jul 18, 2010, 4:28 PM CDT. It was in force for 72 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 2010, 12:45 PM CDT (17:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 18, 2010, 4:28 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2010, 5:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 72 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Madison County, IA, Warren County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Middle River near Indianola (IDNI4). The gauge peaked at 22.38 ft at Jul 19, 2010, 5:00 PM CDT.
- Action stage
- 19 ft
- Minor stage
- 23 ft
- Moderate stage
- 26 ft
- Major stage
- 28 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05486490, 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 Jul 18, 12:41 PM CDT, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 12:41 PM CDT, 4 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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| Jul 17, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Emmet, Kossuth, Palo Alto | 40 min |
| Jul 17, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Emmet, Kossuth, Palo Alto | 51 min |
| Jul 17, 11:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Palo Alto, Pocahontas | 25 min |
| Jul 17, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Humboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Pocahontas | 44 min |
| Jul 18, 12:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Calhoun, Pocahontas, Webster | 37 min |
| Jul 18, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hamilton, Humboldt, Kossuth, Pocahontas, Webster, Wright | 44 min |
| Jul 18, 12:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Humboldt, Webster, Wright | 24 min |
| Jul 18, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Calhoun, Pocahontas, Sac, Webster | 62 min |
| Jul 18, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone, Hamilton, Humboldt, Story, Webster, Wright | 65 min |
| Jul 18, 1:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone, Calhoun, Greene, Webster | 51 min |
| Jul 18, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone, Hamilton, Story | 52 min |
| Jul 18, 2:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hamilton, Hardin, Marshall, Story | 58 min |
| Jul 18, 2:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Audubon, Calhoun, Carroll, Greene, Guthrie, Sac | 43 min |
| Jul 18, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Audubon, Carroll, Crawford | 53 min |
| Jul 18, 2:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone, Dallas, Jasper, Polk, Story | 40 min |
| Jul 18, 2:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone, Jasper, Marion, Marshall, Polk, Story | 50 min |
| Jul 18, 3:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Dallas, Madison, Polk, Warren | 4 hr |
| Jul 18, 3:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Dallas, Jasper, Madison, Marion, Monroe, Polk and 1 more | 45 min |
| Jul 18, 3:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Jasper, Marion, Polk | 35 min |
| Jul 18, 3:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jasper, Marshall, Story, Tama | 46 min |
| Jul 18, 3:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Clarke, Lucas, Madison, Union, Warren | 41 min |
| Jul 18, 3:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Audubon, Carroll, Greene, Guthrie | 51 min |
| Jul 18, 3:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Marion, Warren | 30 min |
| Jul 18, 3:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jasper, Lucas, Madison, Mahaska, Marion, Marshall and 4 more | 61 min |
| Jul 18, 3:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Dallas, Guthrie | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 4:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Lucas, Monroe | 29 min |
| Jul 18, 4:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Davis, Lucas, Monroe, Wapello, Wayne | 65 min |
| Jul 18, 4:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DMX | Jasper, Mahaska, Marion | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 5:18 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DMX | Madison | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 5:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Lucas, Mahaska, Marion, Monroe | 4 hr |
| Jul 18, 8:35 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DMX | Polk | 20 days |
| Jul 18, 8:35 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Marion | 32 hr |
| Jul 18, 3:13 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | DMX | Polk | 12 days |
| Jul 18, 3:13 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | DMX | Polk | 53 hr |
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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.