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River Flood Warning 229, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this river flood warning at Aug 16, 2010, 10:27 AM CDT for Des Moines County, Lee County, Iowa; Hancock County, Henderson County, Illinois. It took effect at Aug 16, 2010, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 57 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 2010, 10:27 AM CDT (15:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 16, 2010, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2010, 9:59 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Des Moines County, IA, Lee County, IA, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:32 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 Mississippi River at Burlington (BRLI4).
- Action stage
- 14 ft
- Minor stage
- 15 ft
- Moderate stage
- 16.5 ft
- Major stage
- 18 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.
Nearby
River Flood Warnings in Iowa, 2010River Flood Warnings in Illinois, 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.