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River Flood Warning 29, NWS La Crosse, WI

March 19, 2019Grant County, Wisconsin; Clayton County, Iowa

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this river flood warning at Mar 19, 2019, 11:09 AM CDT for Grant County, Wisconsin; Clayton County, Iowa. It took effect at Mar 20, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 52 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 19, 2019, 11:09 AM CDT (16:09 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 20, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired
May 11, 2019, 9:40 AM CDT
In force
52 days
Issued by
NWS La Crosse, WI
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Clayton County, IA, Grant County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Mississippi River below Lock and Dam 10 - Guttenberg (GTTI4).

Action stage
12 ft
Minor stage
15 ft
Moderate stage
18 ft
Major stage
21 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 La Crosse, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Mar 18, 6:00 PM CDT, 17 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 18, 6:00 PM CDT, 17 hours 9 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.