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River Flood Advisory 10, NWS Chicago, IL

March 28, 2021Iroquois County, Illinois

NWS Chicago, IL issued this river flood advisory at Mar 28, 2021, 6:39 AM CDT for Iroquois County, Illinois. It was in force for 33 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 28, 2021, 6:39 AM CDT (11:39 UTC)
Expired
Mar 29, 2021, 3:56 PM CDT
In force
33 hr
Issued by
NWS Chicago, IL
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Iroquois County, IL

The radar

The Chicago radar (KLOT), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:42 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 Sugar Creek (E-IL) at Milford (MILI2).

Action stage
15 ft
Minor stage
18 ft
Moderate stage
22 ft
Major stage
26 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05525500, 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 advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Chicago, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood advisory went out at Mar 28, 6:30 AM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 6:30 AM CDT, 9 minutes before
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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.