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River Flood Watch 3, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this river flood watch at Apr 21, 2017, 9:43 AM CDT for Columbia County, Wisconsin. It took effect at Apr 22, 2017, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 5 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 21, 2017, 9:43 AM CDT (14:43 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 22, 2017, 10:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2017, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 days
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Columbia County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:44 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 Wisconsin River at Portage (PORW3).
- Action stage
- 12.7 ft
- Minor stage
- 17 ft
- Moderate stage
- 18 ft
- Major stage
- 19 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 Apr 21, 9:32 AM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 21, 9:32 AM CDT, 11 minutes before
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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.