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River Flood Watch 34, NWS Milwaukee, WI

October 6, 2018Racine County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this river flood watch at Oct 6, 2018, 5:36 AM CDT for Racine County, Wisconsin. It took effect at Oct 7, 2018, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 6, 2018, 5:36 AM CDT (10:36 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 7, 2018, 10:00 AM CDT
Expired: Oct 11, 2018, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Racine County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Fox River at Burlington (BRGW3).

Action stage: 9 ft
Minor stage: 11 ft
Moderate stage: 12 ft
Major stage: 14 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 Oct 6, 3:27 AM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 6, 3:27 AM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 6, 4:19 AM CDT, 1 hour 17 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 5, 8:58 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Lafayette	8 days
Oct 6, 4:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Kenosha	26 min
Oct 6, 10:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Racine	4 days
Oct 6, 10:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Racine	43 hr
Oct 6, 10:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Rock	24 hr
Oct 6, 10:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Rock	34 hr
Oct 6, 10:38 AM CDT	River Flood Watch	MKX	Jefferson	10 hr

Nearby

River Flood Watches in Wisconsin, 2018 Every river flood watch 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.