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River Flood Warning 104, NWS Quad Cities, IA

December 29, 2015Henry County, Rock Island County, Illinois

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this river flood warning at Dec 29, 2015, 10:04 AM CST for Henry County, Rock Island County, Illinois. It took effect at Dec 29, 2015, 3:00 PM CST. It was in force for 5 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 29, 2015, 10:04 AM CST (16:04 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 29, 2015, 3:00 PM CST
Expired: Jan 3, 2016, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 5 days
Issued by: NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Henry County, IL, Rock Island County, IL

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Moline (MLII2).

Action stage: 11 ft
Minor stage: 12 ft
Moderate stage: 13 ft
Major stage: 14 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.

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 Dec 28, 3:38 PM CST, 18 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 28, 3:38 PM CST, 18 hours 26 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 28, 7:21 PM CST	River Flood Warning	DVN	Louisa	53 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Illinois, 2015 Every river flood warning in 2015

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.