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River Flood Warning 19, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this river flood warning at Apr 29, 2018, 1:49 PM CDT for Clinton County, Scott County, Iowa; Rock Island County, Whiteside County, Illinois. It took effect at May 4, 2018, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 14 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 2018, 1:49 PM CDT (18:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 4, 2018, 4:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 18, 2018, 7:47 AM CDT
- In force
- 14 days
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Clinton County, IA, Scott County, IA, Rock Island County, IL, Whiteside County, IL
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Mississippi River at Camanche (CMMI4). The gauge peaked at 18.95 ft at May 10, 2018, 1:00 PM CDT.
- Action stage
- 16 ft
- Minor stage
- 17 ft
- Moderate stage
- 18.5 ft
- Major stage
- 20.5 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05420500, 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 Apr 28, 6:38 PM CDT, 19 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 6:38 PM CDT, 19 hours 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 29, 1:49 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | DVN | Muscatine, Scott | 20 days |
Nearby
River Flood Warnings in Iowa, 2018River Flood Warnings in Illinois, 2018Every river flood warning in 2018
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.