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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
937 AM CDT MON AUG 18 2025
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE WI HAS ISSUED A FLOOD
WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVERS IN IOWA...
CEDAR RIVER AT CHARLES CITY AFFECTING FLOYD COUNTY.
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 1100 PM CDT.
IAC067-190400-
/O.NEW.KARX.FL.W.0023.250819T0700Z-250820T1800Z/
/CCYI4.1.ER.250819T0745Z.250819T1800Z.250820T0600Z.NO/
937 AM CDT MON AUG 18 2025
...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT TO EARLY WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST.
* WHERE...CEDAR RIVER AT CHARLES CITY.
* WHEN...FROM LATE TONIGHT TO EARLY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
* IMPACTS...AT 14.0 FEET, BRACKET STREET BEGINS TO FLOOD AND IS
CLOSED.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- AT 9:30 AM CDT MONDAY THE STAGE WAS 4.4 FEET.
- BANKFULL STAGE IS 9.0 FEET.
- FORECAST...THE RIVER IS EXPECTED TO RISE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE
JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO A CREST OF 13.5 FEET EARLY
TOMORROW AFTERNOON. IT WILL THEN FALL BELOW FLOOD STAGE EARLY
WEDNESDAY MORNING.
- FLOOD STAGE IS 12.0 FEET.
- FLOOD HISTORY...THIS CREST COMPARES TO A PREVIOUS CREST OF
13.7 FEET ON 03/19/1986.
- HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SAFETY/FLOOD
LAT...LON 4321 9286 4321 9273 4301 9255 4293 9255
4304 9273
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