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River Flood Warning 60, NWS Quad Cities, IA

September 19, 2015Johnson County, Washington County, Iowa

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this river flood warning at Sep 19, 2015, 6:33 AM CDT for Johnson County, Washington County, Iowa. It was in force for 64 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 19, 2015, 6:33 AM CDT (11:33 UTC)
Expired: Sep 21, 2015, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 64 hr
Issued by: NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Johnson County, IA, Washington County, IA

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:31 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 English River at Kalona (KALI4).

Action stage: 13 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 16 ft
Major stage: 18 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05455500, 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 Sep 19, 6:23 AM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 19, 6:23 AM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 19, 3:21 AM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
321 AM CDT SAT SEP 19 2015

IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007-
009-015>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-200830-
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-
321 AM CDT SAT SEP 19 2015

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

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 18, 7:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Henry, Jefferson, Johnson, Louisa, Washington	24 min
Sep 18, 8:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Des Moines, Henry, Louisa, Muscatine	58 min
Sep 18, 8:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Muscatine, Scott	55 min
Sep 18, 9:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Henry	21 min

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.