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River Flood Watch 7, NWS Milwaukee, WI

September 22, 2016Sauk County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this river flood watch at Sep 22, 2016, 5:53 AM CDT for Sauk County, Wisconsin. It took effect at Sep 23, 2016, 11:54 AM CDT. It was in force for 52 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 22, 2016, 5:53 AM CDT (10:53 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 23, 2016, 11:54 AM CDT
Expired: Sep 25, 2016, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 52 hr
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Sauk County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Baraboo River at West Baraboo (BBOW3).

Action stage: 7 ft
Minor stage: 9 ft
Moderate stage: 10.5 ft
Major stage: 12.5 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 watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Milwaukee, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood watch went out at Sep 22, 3:24 AM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 22, 3:24 AM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 22, 2:35 AM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 21, 7:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Sauk	32 min
Sep 21, 8:14 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MKX	Columbia, Marquette, Sauk	12 hr
Sep 21, 9:10 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Sauk	7 days
Sep 21, 9:10 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Sauk	9 days
Sep 21, 9:11 PM CDT	River Flood Watch	MKX	Jefferson	25 hr
Sep 21, 9:11 PM CDT	River Flood Watch	MKX	Columbia	5 days
Sep 21, 10:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Iowa, Sauk	39 min
Sep 22, 2:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Sauk	55 min
Sep 22, 3:14 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Columbia	5 days

Nearby

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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.