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River Flood Warning 20, NWS Quad Cities, IA

June 16, 2015Keokuk County, Iowa

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this river flood warning at Jun 16, 2015, 6:42 AM CDT for Keokuk County, Iowa. It took effect at Jun 16, 2015, 2:30 PM CDT. It was in force for 60 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 2015, 6:42 AM CDT (11:42 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 16, 2015, 2:30 PM CDT
Expired: Jun 19, 2015, 2:12 AM CDT
In force: 60 hr
Issued by: NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Keokuk County, IA

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:48 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 North Skunk River near Sigourney (SIGI4).

Action stage: 14.5 ft
Minor stage: 16 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 21 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05472500, 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 Jun 16, 6:12 AM CDT, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 6:12 AM CDT, 30 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
Jun 15, 9:54 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Louisa	6 days
Jun 15, 9:54 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Des Moines, Louisa	6 days
Jun 15, 9:59 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Johnson, Washington	3 days
Jun 16, 4:38 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Cedar, Louisa, Muscatine	3 days
Jun 16, 4:38 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Louisa	4 days
Jun 15, 9:26 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Whiteside	4 days
Jun 15, 9:26 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Henry, Rock Island, Whiteside	9 days
Jun 15, 9:26 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Henry, Rock Island	7 days
Jun 15, 9:26 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Henry	5 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Iowa, 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.