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River Flood Warning 233, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this river flood warning at Aug 11, 2010, 4:29 PM CDT for Marshall County, Iowa. It took effect at Aug 12, 2010, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 27 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 11, 2010, 4:29 PM CDT (21:29 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 12, 2010, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2010, 4:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 27 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Marshall County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Iowa River at Marshalltown (MIWI4).
- Action stage
- 14 ft
- Minor stage
- 19 ft
- Moderate stage
- 23 ft
- Major stage
- 26 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05451500, 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 Aug 11, 3:36 PM CDT, 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 3:36 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 7:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Calhoun, Hamilton, Humboldt, Webster, Wright | 6 hr |
| Aug 10, 7:40 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | DMX | Boone, Hamilton, Webster | 3 days |
| Aug 10, 7:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Franklin, Hamilton, Hardin | 6 hr |
| Aug 10, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Calhoun, Sac, Webster | 29 min |
| Aug 10, 8:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Boone, Greene, Marshall, Story | 6 hr |
| Aug 10, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone, Greene, Hamilton, Story, Webster | 47 min |
| Aug 10, 9:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Grundy, Tama | 6 hr |
| Aug 10, 9:33 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | DMX | Dallas, Polk | 5 days |
| Aug 10, 10:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Dallas, Jasper, Polk, Poweshiek | 6 hr |
| Aug 10, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone, Polk, Story | 43 min |
| Aug 10, 11:21 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | DMX | Polk | 35 hr |
| Aug 10, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adair, Cass | 51 min |
| Aug 10, 11:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Marion, Warren | 6 hr |
| Aug 10, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adair, Dallas, Guthrie, Madison | 51 min |
| Aug 11, 12:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Adair, Dallas, Guthrie, Madison | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone, Dallas, Polk, Story | 46 min |
| Aug 11, 12:49 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DMX | Calhoun, Sac | 13 hr |
| Aug 11, 12:56 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DMX | Hamilton, Humboldt, Webster, Wright | 24 hr |
| Aug 11, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jasper, Polk | 40 min |
| Aug 11, 2:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Davis, Monroe, Wapello | 4 hr |
| Aug 11, 2:46 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DMX | Boone, Greene, Marshall, Story | 24 hr |
| Aug 11, 2:48 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DMX | Dallas, Polk | 9 hr |
| Aug 11, 2:48 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DMX | Polk | 13 hr |
| Aug 11, 4:28 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DMX | Dallas, Jasper, Polk | 24 hr |
| Aug 11, 5:41 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Marion, Warren | 6 hr |
| Aug 11, 5:53 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Marion | 41 hr |
| Aug 11, 11:16 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DMX | Greene | 57 hr |
| Aug 11, 11:38 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Marion | 36 hr |
| Aug 11, 2:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DMX | Greene | 12 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.