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River Flood Warning 97, NWS Des Moines, IA

June 13, 2010Warren County, Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this river flood warning at Jun 13, 2010, 10:52 AM CDT for Warren County, Iowa. It took effect at Jun 14, 2010, 12:30 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 2010, 10:52 AM CDT (15:52 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 14, 2010, 12:30 PM CDT
Expired
Jun 13, 2010, 9:23 PM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Des Moines, IA
Flood severity
Minor

County Warren County, IA

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:52 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 South River near Ackworth (AKWI4). The gauge peaked at 21.49 ft at Jun 12, 2010, 1:00 PM CDT.

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Action stage
26 ft
Minor stage
29 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 05487470, 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, 15 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 6:57 PM CDT, 15 hours 55 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 11:47 AM CDT, 23 hours 5 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
1147 AM CDT SAT JUN 12 2010

IAZ004>007-015>017-023>028-033>039-044>050-057>062-070>075-081>086-
092>097-131700-
EMMET-KOSSUTH-WINNEBAGO-WORTH-PALO ALTO-HANCOCK-CERRO GORDO-
POCAHONTAS-HUMBOLDT-WRIGHT-FRANKLIN-BUTLER-BREMER-SAC-CALHOUN-
WEBSTER-HAMILTON-HARDIN-GRUNDY-BLACK HAWK-CRAWFORD-CARROLL-GREENE-
BOONE-STORY-MARSHALL-TAMA-AUDUBON-GUTHRIE-DALLAS-POLK-JASPER-
POWESHIEK-CASS-ADAIR-MADISON-WARREN-MARION-MAHASKA-ADAMS-UNION-
CLARKE-LUCAS-MONROE-WAPELLO-TAYLOR-RINGGOLD-DECATUR-WAYNE-APPANOOSE-
DAVIS-
1147 AM CDT SAT JUN 12 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL IOWA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA IN
THE AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME
SEVERE. A LARGER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED
TO MOVE IN TO THE REGION LATE TONIGHT. DAMAGING WINDS AND SMALL
HAIL ALONG WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE THE MAIN THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY EARLY SUNDAY. THE THREAT
OF SEVERE WEATHER IS LOW...HOWEVER LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL COULD
LEAD TO FLOODING.

THUNDERSTORM CHANCES CONTINUE INTERMITTENTLY THROUGHOUT THE
WEEKEND AND INTO NEXT WEEK. THERE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER APPEARS
FAIRLY MINIMAL AT THIS TIME FOR THE WEEKEND...AND IT IS TOO EARLY
TO DETERMINE THE CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER FOR NEXT WEEK. HEAVY
RAINFALL MAY ALSO OCCUR FROM TIME TO TIME THROUGH THE WEEK. AREA
RIVERS AND STREAMS WILL BE ON THE RISE DUE TO THE PERIODS OF
RAINFALL EXPECTED THIS WEEK.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT LIKELY TODAY...BUT RAINFALL REPORTS
WOULD BE APPRECIATED.

AW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 3:51 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 25 more27 hr
Jun 13, 10:03 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryDMXJasper, Marshall, Poweshiek, Story, Tama3 hr
Jun 13, 10:11 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryDMXAudubon, Carroll3 hr
Jun 13, 10:52 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningDMXMadison, Warren53 hr
Jun 13, 12:58 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningDMXPolk4 hr
Jun 13, 2:40 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningDMXPolk37 hr
Jun 13, 5:03 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningDMXDecatur26 hr
Jun 13, 5:03 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningDMXLucas, Wayne4 hr
Jun 13, 5:03 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningDMXAppanoose, Wayne4 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Iowa, 2010Every 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.