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River Flood Warning 12, NWS Quad Cities, IA

March 14, 2014Whiteside County, Illinois

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this river flood warning at Mar 14, 2014, 12:09 PM CDT for Whiteside County, Illinois. It was in force for 5 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 14, 2014, 12:09 PM CDT (17:09 UTC)
Expired: Mar 19, 2014, 4:24 AM CDT
In force: 5 days
Issued by: NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Moderate

County Whiteside County, IL

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:06 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 Rock River at Como (CMOI2). The gauge peaked at 13.19 ft at Mar 16, 2014, 12:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 10 ft
Minor stage: 12.5 ft
Moderate stage: 15.5 ft
Major stage: 18 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05443500, 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 14, 6:50 AM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 6:50 AM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 14, 3:45 AM CDT, 8 hours 24 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
345 AM CDT FRI MAR 14 2014

IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007-
009-015>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-150845-
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-
345 AM CDT FRI MAR 14 2014

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...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A FEW AREA TRIBUTARY RIVERS ARE EXPERIENCING FLOODING. PLEASE SEE
THE LATEST FLOOD STATEMENTS AND FLOOD WARNINGS FOR DETAILS. THERE IS
AN INCREASED POTENTIAL FOR ADDITIONAL BREAK-UP ICE JAMS ON AREA
RIVERS DUE TO THE WARMER TEMPERATURES TODAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT.
HOWEVER...ANY REPORTS OF ICE JAMS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

GROSS/ERVIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 14, 6:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	Henry, Rock Island	9 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Illinois, 2014 Every river flood warning in 2014

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.