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River Flood Watch 8, NWS Milwaukee, WI

March 21, 2020Green Lake County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this river flood watch at Mar 21, 2020, 10:42 AM CDT for Green Lake County, Wisconsin. It took effect at Mar 22, 2020, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 21, 2020, 10:42 AM CDT (15:42 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 22, 2020, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired
Mar 21, 2020, 4:31 PM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Green Lake County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Fox River (North) at Berlin (BERW3). The gauge peaked at 13.02 ft at Mar 22, 2020, 11:00 AM CDT.

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Action stage
12 ft
Minor stage
13 ft
Moderate stage
14.5 ft
Major stage
16 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04073500, 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 watch 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 watch went out at Mar 21, 10:08 AM CDT, 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 21, 10:08 AM CDT, 34 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 21, 2:43 PM CDTSmall Craft AdvisoryMKX28 hr
Mar 21, 4:31 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningMKXGreen Lake20 days

Nearby

River Flood Watches in Wisconsin, 2020Every river flood watch 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.