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River Flood Warning 43, NWS Milwaukee, WI

March 15, 2019Sauk County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this river flood warning at Mar 15, 2019, 11:43 AM CDT for Sauk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 69 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 15, 2019, 11:43 AM CDT (16:43 UTC)
Expired: Mar 18, 2019, 8:49 AM CDT
In force: 69 hr
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Sauk County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Baraboo River at Reedsburg (RBGW3).

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 16 ft
Major stage: 18 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 054041665, 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 Mar 15, 11:04 AM CDT, 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 11:04 AM CDT, 39 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
Mar 14, 9:16 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	MKX		28 hr
Mar 14, 9:33 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Jefferson	23 days
Mar 14, 9:33 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Green Lake	23 days
Mar 14, 9:33 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Green Lake	44 days
Mar 14, 9:33 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Ozaukee	48 hr
Mar 14, 9:33 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Ozaukee	21 days
Mar 14, 11:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac	24 hr
Mar 15, 3:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green, Green Lake and 8 more	36 hr
Mar 15, 10:32 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Ozaukee	21 days
Mar 15, 10:57 AM CDT	River Flood Watch	MKX	Jefferson, Rock	30 hr
Mar 15, 10:57 AM CDT	River Flood Watch	MKX	Columbia	34 hr
Mar 15, 11:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Jefferson	17 days
Mar 15, 12:01 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dodge	21 days

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.