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River Flood Warning 48, NWS Omaha, NE

August 29, 2014Page County, Iowa

NWS Omaha, NE issued this river flood warning at Aug 29, 2014, 12:17 AM CDT for Page County, Iowa. It was in force for 32 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 29, 2014, 12:17 AM CDT (05:17 UTC)
Expired: Aug 30, 2014, 8:16 AM CDT
In force: 32 hr
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Page County, IA

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Nodaway River at Clarinda (ICLI4). The gauge peaked at 26.56 ft at Aug 29, 2014, 1:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 21 ft
Minor stage: 23 ft
Moderate stage: 26 ft
Major stage: 29 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06817000, 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 Aug 28, 6:11 PM CDT, 6 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 6:11 PM CDT, 6 hours 6 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
Aug 29, 1:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OAX	Saunders	9 hr
Aug 29, 9:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Stanton	50 min
Aug 29, 2:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Nemaha, Otoe, Richardson, Sarpy	62 min
Aug 28, 7:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Montgomery	38 min
Aug 28, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Page	16 min
Aug 28, 7:52 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Montgomery, Page	3 hr
Aug 28, 9:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Montgomery	39 min
Aug 28, 9:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OAX	Fremont	12 hr
Aug 29, 12:23 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Montgomery	20 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Iowa, 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.