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River Flood Warning 111, NWS La Crosse, WI

October 5, 2019Juneau County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this river flood warning at Oct 5, 2019, 1:47 PM CDT for Juneau County, Wisconsin. It took effect at Oct 5, 2019, 2:13 PM CDT. It was in force for 65 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 5, 2019, 1:47 PM CDT (18:47 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 5, 2019, 2:13 PM CDT
Expired: Oct 8, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 65 hr
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Juneau County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Yellow River (WI) at Necedah (NCAW3).

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 15 ft
Moderate stage: 16.5 ft
Major stage: 18 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05403000, 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 La Crosse, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Oct 5, 11:45 AM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 5, 11:45 AM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 5, 12:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
1242 PM CDT SAT OCT 5 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1238 PM     HEAVY RAIN       1 N WABASHA             44.38N 92.04W
10/05/2019  E2.40 INCH       WABASHA            MN   PUBLIC

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The office that day

Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 5, 11:22 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ARX	Buffalo	21 days
Oct 5, 9:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ARX	Wabasha	3 hr
Oct 5, 3:29 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ARX	Olmsted, Winona	21 hr
Oct 5, 4:01 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ARX	Clayton	24 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Wisconsin, 2019 Every river flood warning in 2019

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.