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River Flood Warning 70, NWS Milwaukee, WI

September 1, 2018Green Lake County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this river flood warning at Sep 1, 2018, 5:01 AM CDT for Green Lake County, Wisconsin. It took effect at Sep 1, 2018, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 61 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 1, 2018, 5:01 AM CDT (10:01 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 1, 2018, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired: Nov 1, 2018, 8:09 PM CDT
In force: 61 days
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Green Lake County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Fox River (North) at Berlin (BERW3). The gauge peaked at 15.20 ft at Sep 12, 2018, 12:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 13 ft
Moderate stage: 14.5 ft
Major stage: 16 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04073500, 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 Sep 1, 3:19 AM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 3:19 AM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 1, 3:54 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 1, 3:47 AM CDT, 1 hour 14 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
Aug 31, 8:43 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		62 min
Aug 31, 8:52 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Rock	63 days
Sep 1, 3:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Iowa, Lafayette	58 min
Sep 1, 7:52 AM CDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	MKX		14 hr
Sep 1, 11:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Walworth	7 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Wisconsin, 2018 Every 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.