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River Flood Warning 72, NWS Quad Cities, IA

June 27, 2020Des Moines County, Iowa; Henderson County, Illinois

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this river flood warning at Jun 27, 2020, 10:29 AM CDT for Des Moines County, Iowa; Henderson County, Illinois. It took effect at Jun 28, 2020, 9:40 PM CDT. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 2020, 10:29 AM CDT (15:29 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 28, 2020, 9:40 PM CDT
Expired: Jul 2, 2020, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Des Moines County, IA, Henderson County, IL

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Mississippi River at Gladstone (GLDI2).

Action stage: 9 ft
Minor stage: 10 ft
Moderate stage: 12 ft
Major stage: 14 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 Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jun 27, 6:50 AM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 6:50 AM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 7:48 AM CDT, 2 hours 41 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
Jun 26, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Des Moines, Henry	25 min
Jun 26, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Van Buren	33 min
Jun 26, 7:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Keokuk	45 min
Jun 26, 8:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Keokuk, Louisa, Muscatine and 1 more	61 min
Jun 26, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Henry	30 min
Jun 26, 9:06 PM CDT	River Flood Watch	DVN	Des Moines, Louisa	62 hr
Jun 26, 9:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	Keokuk, Washington	8 hr
Jun 27, 12:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Lee	37 min
Jun 27, 12:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Lee	27 min
Jun 27, 2:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Jefferson	31 min
Jun 27, 7:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Keokuk, Washington	57 min
Jun 27, 10:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Des Moines, Lee	5 days
Jun 27, 2:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Keokuk, Washington	57 min
Jun 27, 3:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Iowa, Johnson	62 min
Jun 27, 3:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	Johnson	2 hr
Jun 27, 4:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Iowa	53 min
Jun 27, 5:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	Cedar, Johnson, Linn	83 min
Jun 27, 1:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Hancock	31 min
Jun 27, 3:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Putnam	27 min
Jun 27, 5:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DVN	McDonough	44 min
Jun 27, 1:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Scotland	23 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Iowa, 2020 River Flood Warnings in Illinois, 2020 Every river flood warning in 2020

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.