Flood Warning
NWS La Crosse WI ยท US
Details
Flood Warning In Effect From Late Tonight To Late Wednesday Night
- Event
- Flood Warning
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Severe
- Certainty
- Likely
- Response
- Avoid
Description
Overview
...The National Weather Service in La Crosse has issued a Flood Warning for the following rivers in Wisconsin... Kickapoo River at Gays Mills affecting Crawford County. Kickapoo River at Steuben affecting Crawford County. Kickapoo River at Readstown affecting Vernon County. Additional river and weather information is available at www.weather.gov/lacrosse. The next statement will be issued late tonight by 1245 AM CDT.
What
Minor flooding is forecast.
Where
Kickapoo River at Steuben.
When
From late tonight to late Wednesday night.
Impacts
At 12.5 feet, Water reaches the bottom support beams of the bridge.
Additional details
- At 8:45 AM CDT Saturday the stage was 8.9 feet. - Bankfull stage is 10.0 feet. - Forecast...The river will rise above flood stage late tonight to 12.3 feet early Monday morning. It will then oscillate around flood stage through Wednesday morning before falling below flood stage Wednesday afternoon. - Flood stage is 12.0 feet. - Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of 12.3 feet on 07/02/1998. - http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Affected areas
- Crawford County, WI
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS La Crosse WI
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~1m10s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2X1FCRD0510VYYX6GNYSXZN
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.c8079876531af6f9c9f92dbaeeb1e11285bd3f7a.002.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS La Crosse WI
- AWIPS ID
- CAPARX
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.3471
- WMO heading
- XOUS53
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 53
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | FLW |
| NationalWeatherService | FLW |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | FLWARX |
| WMOidentifier | WGUS43 KARX 191434 |
| NWSheadline | FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT TO LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| VTEC | /O.NEW.KARX.FL.W.0054.260920T1000Z-260924T0800Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-24T03:00:00-05:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Crawford County, WI
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 055023 |
| UGC | WIC023 |
- Polygons
- 43.27,-90.82 43.08,-90.85 43.06,-90.92 43.15,-90.91 43.28,-90.86 43.27,-90.82