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River Flood Warning 9, NWS Omaha, NE

March 10, 2010Pottawattamie County, Iowa

NWS Omaha, NE issued this river flood warning at Mar 10, 2010, 2:52 PM CST for Pottawattamie County, Iowa. It took effect at Mar 11, 2010, 7:23 PM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 10, 2010, 2:52 PM CST (20:52 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 11, 2010, 7:23 PM CST
Expired: Mar 11, 2010, 10:46 AM CST
In force
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Flood severity: Minor

County Pottawattamie County, IA

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point West Nishnabotna River near Hancock (HNKI4). The gauge peaked at 9.83 ft at Mar 12, 2010, 1:00 AM CST.

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 19 ft
Major stage: 23 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06807410, 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 Omaha, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Mar 10, 3:25 AM CST, 11 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 10, 3:25 AM CST, 11 hours 27 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 9, 6:35 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Cuming, Stanton	17 hr
Mar 9, 8:44 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Pierce	12 hr
Mar 9, 11:28 PM CST	River Flood Warning	OAX	Cuming	4 days
Mar 10, 12:35 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Knox	11 hr
Mar 10, 7:19 AM CST	River Flood Warning	OAX	Saline	25 hr
Mar 10, 7:26 AM CST	River Flood Warning	OAX	Knox	14 hr
Mar 10, 7:26 AM CST	River Flood Warning	OAX	Knox	30 hr
Mar 10, 7:32 AM CST	River Flood Warning	OAX	Dodge	36 hr
Mar 10, 11:04 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	OAX	Cuming, Dodge, Washington	32 hr
Mar 10, 3:08 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Butler, Colfax, Dodge, Douglas, Platte, Sarpy and 1 more	54 hr
Mar 10, 4:28 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	OAX	Douglas, Sarpy, Saunders	3 hr
Mar 10, 5:43 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	OAX	Platte	24 hr
Mar 10, 1:18 PM CST	River Flood Warning	OAX	Fremont	69 hr
Mar 10, 2:52 PM CST	River Flood Warning	OAX	Fremont	23 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Iowa, 2010 Every 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.