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River Flood Warning 117, NWS Milwaukee, WI

October 8, 2018Sauk County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this river flood warning at Oct 8, 2018, 3:44 PM CDT for Sauk County, Wisconsin. It took effect at Oct 9, 2018, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 8, 2018, 3:44 PM CDT (20:44 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 9, 2018, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired: Oct 13, 2018, 2:33 PM CDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Sauk County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Baraboo River at Rock Springs (RSPW3).

Action stage: 13.5 ft
Minor stage: 18.5 ft
Moderate stage: 21 ft
Major stage: 23 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 warning 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 warning went out at Oct 8, 3:39 PM CDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 8, 3:39 PM CDT, 5 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
Oct 8, 7:04 AM CDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	MKX		8 hr
Oct 8, 7:08 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	MKX	Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Washington, Waukesha	3 hr
Oct 8, 10:47 AM CDT	River Flood Watch	MKX	Sauk	7 days
Oct 8, 10:47 AM CDT	River Flood Watch	MKX	Columbia, Sauk	22 days
Oct 8, 3:16 PM CDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	MKX		104 min
Oct 8, 3:44 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Sauk	7 days
Oct 8, 5:09 PM CDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	MKX		4 hr

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.