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River Flood Warning 7, NWS Quad Cities, IA

July 13, 2025Des Moines County, Lee County, Iowa; Hancock County, Henderson County, Illinois

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this river flood warning at Jul 13, 2025, 11:29 AM CDT for Des Moines County, Lee County, Iowa; Hancock County, Henderson County, Illinois. It took effect at Jul 14, 2025, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 58 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 13, 2025, 11:29 AM CDT (16:29 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 14, 2025, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired
Jul 16, 2025, 10:44 AM CDT
In force
58 hr
Issued by
NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Des Moines County, IA, Lee County, IA, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:30 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 Mississippi River at Burlington (BRLI4).

Action stage
14 ft
Minor stage
15 ft
Moderate stage
16.5 ft
Major stage
18 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 Jul 12, 6:29 PM CDT, 17 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 6:29 PM CDT, 17 hours before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 7:07 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningDVNDes Moines4 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Iowa, 2025River Flood Warnings in Illinois, 2025Every river flood warning in 2025

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.