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River Flood Warning 11, NWS Milwaukee, WI

February 24, 2019Green County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this river flood warning at Feb 24, 2019, 4:16 AM CST for Green County, Wisconsin. It took effect at Feb 24, 2019, 9:08 PM CST. It was in force for 47 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 24, 2019, 4:16 AM CST (10:16 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 24, 2019, 9:08 PM CST
Expired: Feb 26, 2019, 8:20 PM CST
In force: 47 hr
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Green County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Pecatonica River at Martintown (MTNW3). The gauge peaked at 13.15 ft at Feb 27, 2019, 7:00 AM CST.

Action stage: 9.5 ft
Minor stage: 13.5 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 21 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05434500, 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 Feb 24, 3:47 AM CST, 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 3:47 AM CST, 29 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
Feb 23, 7:29 PM CST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	MKX		9 hr
Feb 23, 8:18 PM CST	High Wind Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green, Green Lake and 14 more	25 hr
Feb 24, 4:00 AM CST	Heavy Freezing Spray Warning	MKX		56 hr
Feb 24, 11:06 AM CST	River Flood Warning	MKX	Kenosha	23 hr
Feb 24, 2:32 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green, Green Lake and 11 more	18 hr

Nearby

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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.