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River Flood Warning 19, NWS Quad Cities, IA

March 11, 2013Delaware County, Jones County, Iowa

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this river flood warning at Mar 11, 2013, 9:55 AM CDT for Delaware County, Jones County, Iowa. It was in force for 41 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 11, 2013, 9:55 AM CDT (14:55 UTC)
Expired: Mar 13, 2013, 2:42 AM CDT
In force: 41 hr
Issued by: NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Delaware County, IA, Jones County, IA

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:55 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 Maquoketa River at Manchester Hwy 20 (MCHI4).

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 17 ft
Major stage: 20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05416900, 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 Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Mar 10, 6:46 PM CDT, 15 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 10, 6:46 PM CDT, 15 hours 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 10, 4:11 PM CDT, 17 hours 44 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
411 PM CDT SUN MAR 10 2013

IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007-
009-015>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-112115-
BUCHANAN-DELAWARE-DUBUQUE-BENTON-LINN-JONES-JACKSON-IOWA-JOHNSON-
CEDAR-CLINTON-MUSCATINE-SCOTT-KEOKUK-WASHINGTON-LOUISA-JEFFERSON-
HENRY IA-DES MOINES-VAN BUREN-LEE-JO DAVIESS-STEPHENSON-CARROLL-
WHITESIDE-ROCK ISLAND-HENRY IL-BUREAU-PUTNAM-MERCER-HENDERSON-
WARREN-HANCOCK-MCDONOUGH-SCOTLAND-CLARK-
411 PM CDT SUN MAR 10 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL
ILLINOIS...NORTHWEST ILLINOIS...WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...EAST
CENTRAL IOWA...NORTHEAST IOWA...SOUTHEAST IOWA AND NORTHEAST
MISSOURI.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

AREAS OF DENSE FOG NEAR AND EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER WILL
CONTINUE TO LIMIT VISIBILITIES TO A QUARTER MILE OR LESS THROUGH
THIS EVENING.

TONIGHT...LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE THROUGH EASTERN IOWA TONIGHT.  RAIN
WILL CHANGE TO WET SNOW THIS EVENING WITH SEVERAL HOURS OF
MODERATE TO LOCALLY HEAVY SNOW OVERNIGHT. ACCUMULATIONS OF 3 TO 5
INCHES ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT NORTHEAST OF A CEDAR RAPIDS DUBUQUE
LINE.

RUNOFF FROM THE RAINS THAT OCCURRED LAST NIGHT AND TODAY HAS BEEN
CAUSING SOME FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND PONDING OF WATER IN
LOCATIONS WHERE THE GROUND IS STILL FROZEN.

ALSO SOME AREA RIVERS ARE EXPERIENCING FLOODING. PLEASE SEE THE
LATEST FLOOD STATEMENTS AND FLOOD WARNINGS FOR DETAILS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER REPORTS OF MORE THAN AN INCH OF SNOW TONIGHT IS
APPRECIATED.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 10, 9:34 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Cedar, Louisa, Muscatine	7 days
Mar 10, 11:09 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Lee	59 hr
Mar 11, 11:10 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Des Moines	6 days
Mar 10, 11:09 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Henry	70 hr
Mar 11, 9:27 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Henry, Rock Island, Whiteside	8 days
Mar 11, 9:27 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Henry, Rock Island	6 days
Mar 11, 11:10 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Hancock	59 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Iowa, 2013 Every river flood warning in 2013

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.