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River Flood Warning 43, NWS Omaha, NE

July 18, 2016Page County, Iowa

NWS Omaha, NE issued this river flood warning at Jul 18, 2016, 9:05 AM CDT for Page County, Iowa. It took effect at Jul 18, 2016, 10:09 AM CDT. It was in force for 30 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 18, 2016, 9:05 AM CDT (14:05 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 18, 2016, 10:09 AM CDT
Expired: Jul 19, 2016, 4:25 PM CDT
In force: 30 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 14:04 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 23.39 ft at Jul 18, 2016, 10:00 AM 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 Jul 18, 4:50 AM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 4:50 AM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 18, 5:09 AM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 18, 6:49 AM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 18, 7:38 AM CDT, 1 hour 27 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
Jul 17, 11:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Cass	29 min
Jul 18, 12:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Sarpy	27 min
Jul 18, 12:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Douglas	33 min
Jul 18, 12:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Douglas, Sarpy	31 min
Jul 18, 12:17 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Sarpy	118 min
Jul 18, 1:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Douglas	31 min
Jul 18, 1:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Burt, Cuming, Dodge	3 hr
Jul 18, 1:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt, Cuming, Dodge	39 min
Jul 18, 2:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Dodge	32 min
Jul 18, 2:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	OAX	Burt, Cuming, Dodge, Douglas, Washington	7 hr
Jul 18, 2:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Dodge, Washington	28 min
Jul 18, 2:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Washington	26 min
Jul 18, 2:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Washington	3 hr
Jul 18, 3:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Dodge	30 min
Jul 18, 3:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Burt, Cuming, Dodge	3 hr
Jul 18, 3:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Washington	34 min
Jul 18, 3:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Dodge	36 min
Jul 18, 4:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Burt	32 min
Jul 18, 5:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Dodge	34 min
Jul 18, 5:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Douglas, Washington	4 hr
Jul 18, 6:43 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OAX	Burt, Cuming, Dodge	3 hr
Jul 18, 9:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Cass	31 min
Jul 18, 9:15 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Dodge	22 hr
Jul 18, 3:32 PM CDT	Excessive Heat Watch	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 24 more	24 hr
Jul 17, 7:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Monona	51 min
Jul 17, 11:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Page	30 min
Jul 17, 11:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Harrison	33 min
Jul 17, 11:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Page	29 min
Jul 17, 11:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Page	36 min
Jul 17, 11:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Page	34 min
Jul 18, 12:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Pottawattamie	26 min
Jul 18, 12:23 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Mills, Pottawattamie	2 hr
Jul 18, 12:26 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Page	2 hr
Jul 18, 12:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Mills, Pottawattamie	26 min
Jul 18, 12:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Page	27 min
Jul 18, 12:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Mills, Montgomery	30 min
Jul 18, 1:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Pottawattamie	43 min
Jul 18, 1:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Montgomery, Page	40 min
Jul 18, 1:22 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie	3 hr
Jul 18, 1:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pottawattamie	22 min
Jul 18, 1:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Harrison	29 min
Jul 18, 2:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Harrison, Pottawattamie	42 min
Jul 18, 3:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Harrison	33 min
Jul 18, 3:49 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie	5 hr
Jul 18, 4:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Montgomery, Page	5 hr
Jul 18, 9:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OAX	Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie	6 hr
Jul 18, 9:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Fremont	31 min

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River Flood Warnings in Iowa, 2016 Every river flood warning in 2016

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.