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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
104 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2025
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE WI HAS ISSUED A FLOOD
WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVERS IN IOWA...
UPPER IOWA RIVER AT DECORAH AFFECTING WINNESHIEK COUNTY.
.THE LATEST RIVER FORECAST HAS INCREASED THE FORECAST CREST FROM
10.5 TO 12 FEET WHICH IS NOW MINOR FLOOD STAGE.
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 LATE TONIGHT BY 115 AM CDT.
IAC191-190615-
/O.NEW.KARX.FL.W.0025.250819T0000Z-250819T1200Z/
/DEHI4.1.ER.250819T0000Z.250819T0000Z.250819T0000Z.NO/
104 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2025
..FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING TO TOMORROW MORNING
* WHAT...MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST.
* WHERE...UPPER IOWA RIVER AT DECORAH.
* WHEN...FROM THIS EVENING TO TOMORROW MORNING.
* IMPACTS...AT 12.0 FEET, RESIDENTIAL AREAS ARE THREATENED ON THE
WEST EDGE OF DECORAH JUST BEFORE THE LEVEE PROTECTING THE TOWN
BEGINS. SOME AGRICULTURAL FLOODING MAY ALSO OCCUR.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- AT 12:45 PM CDT MONDAY THE STAGE WAS 10.3 FEET.
- BANKFULL STAGE IS 11.0 FEET.
- FORECAST...THE RIVER IS EXPECTED TO RISE TO A CREST OF 12.0
FEET THIS EVENING.
- FLOOD STAGE IS 12.0 FEET.
- FLOOD HISTORY...THIS CREST COMPARES TO A PREVIOUS CREST OF
11.9 FEET ON 06/10/2018.
- HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SAFETY/FLOOD
LAT...LON 4325 9182 4334 9187 4336 9181 4339 9161
4334 9161
BAUMGARDT
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