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River Flood Warning 4, NWS Quad Cities, IA

February 3, 2019Iowa County, Iowa

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this river flood warning at Feb 3, 2019, 7:55 PM CST for Iowa County, Iowa. It took effect at Feb 4, 2019, 10:16 AM CST. It was in force for 5 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 3, 2019, 7:55 PM CST (01:55 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 4, 2019, 10:16 AM CST
Expired: Feb 9, 2019, 3:00 PM CST
In force: 5 days
Issued by: NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Iowa County, IA

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:56 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 Iowa River at Marengo (MROI4).

Action stage: 13 ft
Minor stage: 15 ft
Moderate stage: 17 ft
Major stage: 19 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05453100, 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 Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Feb 3, 5:32 PM CST, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 3, 5:32 PM CST, 2 hours 23 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 3, 8:16 PM CST	River Flood Watch	DVN	Johnson, Washington	10 hr
Feb 4, 6:38 AM CST	River Flood Warning	DVN	Johnson, Washington	22 hr
Feb 4, 9:55 AM CST	River Flood Warning	DVN	Clinton, Scott	5 days
Feb 4, 10:04 AM CST	River Flood Warning	DVN	Keokuk	60 hr
Feb 4, 10:13 AM CST	River Flood Watch	DVN	Louisa	7 days
Feb 4, 2:15 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more	37 hr
Feb 4, 2:59 PM CST	River Flood Warning	DVN	Lee	6 days
Feb 3, 8:16 PM CST	River Flood Watch	DVN	Henry, Rock Island	58 min
Feb 3, 8:55 PM CST	River Flood Warning	DVN	Hancock, McDonough	71 hr
Feb 3, 9:10 PM CST	River Flood Warning	DVN	Henry, Rock Island	15 days
Feb 4, 9:47 AM CST	River Flood Watch	DVN	Stephenson	6 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Iowa, 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.