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River Flood Warning 28, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this river flood warning at Apr 16, 2026, 5:37 AM CDT for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 2026, 5:37 AM CDT (10:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2026, 7:48 PM CDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Milwaukee County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Oak Creek at South Milwaukee (OAKW3). The gauge peaked at 8.78 ft at Apr 16, 2026, 9:00 AM CDT.
- Action stage
- 5.5 ft
- Minor stage
- 8 ft
- Moderate stage
- 10 ft
- Major stage
- 11 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04087204, 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 Milwaukee, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Apr 16, 3:27 AM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 3:27 AM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 15, 7:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Green | 24 min |
| Apr 15, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Jefferson | 38 min |
| Apr 15, 7:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Rock | 41 min |
| Apr 15, 7:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Dane, Green, Jefferson, Lafayette, Rock, Walworth | 3 hr |
| Apr 15, 7:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Rock | 26 min |
| Apr 15, 7:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Rock | 37 min |
| Apr 15, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock, Walworth | 39 min |
| Apr 15, 8:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Waukesha | 44 min |
| Apr 15, 8:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Dodge, Jefferson, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington, Waukesha | 3 hr |
| Apr 15, 8:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Walworth | 27 min |
| Apr 15, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Rock, Walworth | 53 min |
| Apr 15, 8:08 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 2 hr | |
| Apr 15, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 30 min |
| Apr 15, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Walworth | 29 min |
| Apr 15, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Walworth | 53 min |
| Apr 15, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 33 min |
| Apr 15, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Racine | 20 min |
| Apr 15, 8:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Rock, Walworth | 3 hr |
| Apr 15, 9:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 32 min |
| Apr 15, 9:41 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 22 hr |
| Apr 15, 10:09 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 36 min | |
| Apr 15, 10:46 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Racine | 4 days |
| Apr 15, 10:46 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Rock | 44 hr |
| Apr 15, 10:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 3 hr |
| Apr 15, 11:23 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Green, Rock | 5 days |
| Apr 15, 11:23 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Sheboygan | 13 hr |
| Apr 15, 11:23 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 6 days |
| Apr 15, 11:23 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 21 days |
| Apr 15, 11:23 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 44 hr |
| Apr 15, 11:27 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Columbia, Sauk | 4 days |
| Apr 16, 3:01 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MKX | Sheboygan | 7 hr |
| Apr 16, 3:18 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MKX | Dane, Jefferson, Milwaukee, Racine, Rock, Walworth and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:38 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Columbia, Sauk | 3 days |
| Apr 16, 5:27 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Milwaukee, Racine, Walworth, Waukesha | 7 hr |
| Apr 16, 10:46 AM CDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | MKX | 41 hr | |
| Apr 16, 11:06 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Dane | 8 hr |
| Apr 16, 11:39 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 8 hr |
| Apr 16, 11:45 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | MKX | Jefferson, Rock | 34 hr |
| Apr 16, 12:23 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Green Lake | 21 days |
| Apr 16, 12:25 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Rock | 21 days |
| Apr 16, 12:26 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 21 days |
| Apr 16, 12:28 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 21 days |
| Apr 16, 12:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MKX | Columbia, Sauk | 66 hr |
| Apr 16, 3:11 PM CDT | Flood Watch | MKX | Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green, Green Lake and 14 more | 33 hr |
| Apr 16, 6:23 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MKX | Dodge, Fond du Lac, Jefferson, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee and 6 more | 15 hr |
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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.