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River Flood Warning 16, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this river flood warning at May 29, 2024, 8:11 AM CDT for Columbia County, Wisconsin. It took effect at May 29, 2024, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 20 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 2024, 8:11 AM CDT (13:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 29, 2024, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 30, 2024, 3:22 PM CDT
- In force
- 20 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Columbia County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:15 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 Wisconsin River at Portage (PORW3).
- Action stage
- 12.7 ft
- Minor stage
- 17 ft
- Moderate stage
- 18 ft
- Major stage
- 19 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.
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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.