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River Flood Watch 9, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this river flood watch at Apr 19, 2018, 9:41 AM CDT for Cedar County, Louisa County, Muscatine County, Iowa. It took effect at Apr 20, 2018, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 2018, 9:41 AM CDT (14:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 20, 2018, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2018, 10:10 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cedar County, IA, Louisa County, IA, Muscatine County, IA
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Cedar River near Conesville (CNEI4). The gauge peaked at 12.75 ft at Apr 21, 2018, 7:00 AM CDT.
- Action stage
- 12 ft
- Minor stage
- 13 ft
- Moderate stage
- 15 ft
- Major stage
- 16.5 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05465000, 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 Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood watch went out at Apr 18, 6:54 PM CDT, 14 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 18, 6:54 PM CDT, 14 hours 47 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.