163  
WGUS43 KARX 181242  
FLWARX  
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED  
FLOOD WARNING  
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI  
742 AM CDT MON AUG 18 2025  
 
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE WI HAS ISSUED A FLOOD  
WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVERS IN MINNESOTA...  
 
DOBBINS CREEK AT AUSTIN 2NE AFFECTING MOWER COUNTY.  
 
.THE CREEK WAS RISING THIS MORNING AND WITH ANOTHER INCH OF RAINFALL  
FALLING THIS MORNING, MINOR FLOODING IS NOW EXPECTED.  
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...  
 
TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD  
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.  
 
ADDITIONAL RIVER AND WEATHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT  
WWW.WEATHER.GOV/LACROSSE.  
 
THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED THIS EVENING BY 745 PM CDT.  
 
 
 
MNC099-190045-  
/O.NEW.KARX.FL.W.0021.250818T1320Z-250819T2200Z/  
/DOBM5.1.ER.250818T1320Z.250818T2100Z.250819T1000Z.NO/  
742 AM CDT MON AUG 18 2025  
   
..FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL TOMORROW AFTERNOON  
 
* WHAT...MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST.  
 
* WHERE...DOBBINS CREEK AT AUSTIN 2NE.  
 
* WHEN...UNTIL TOMORROW AFTERNOON.  
 
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...  
- AT 6:30 AM CDT MONDAY THE STAGE WAS 11.0 FEET.  
- BANKFULL STAGE IS 8.0 FEET.  
- FORECAST...THE RIVER IS EXPECTED TO RISE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE  
THIS MORNING TO A CREST OF 13.5 FEET LATE THIS AFTERNOON. IT  
WILL THEN FALL BELOW FLOOD STAGE LATE TONIGHT.  
- FLOOD STAGE IS 11.5 FEET.  
- FLOOD HISTORY...THIS CREST COMPARES TO A PREVIOUS CREST OF  
13.0 FEET ON 05/20/2013.  
- HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SAFETY/FLOOD  
 
 
 
LAT...LON 4366 9297 4368 9296 4373 9287 4374 9277  
4369 9279  
 
 
 
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