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SERVICE CHANGE NOTICE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL
1200 PM FRI CDT JUL 26 2019
To: Family of Services (FOS) subscribers, NOAA Weather Wire
Service (NWWS) subscribers, Emergency Managers Weather
Information Network (EMWIN) subscribers, NOAAPort
subscribers, National Weather Service (NWS) partners
and other users, and NWS employees.
From: W. Scott Lincoln
Senior Service Hydrologist
NWS Chicago
Subject: Change to flood impact categories on the Des Plaines River
at Lemont, Illinois
Effective September 5, 2019, flood impact categories for the Des
Plaines River at Lemont, Illinois, (NWS identifier LEMI2) will
change. Flood impact categories are set for this gauge based upon
the river reach extending from approximately Hodgkins downstream to
Lockport Lock & Dam. These changes were coordinated with
representatives from the Cook County Department of Homeland Security
and Emergency Management, the Will County Emergency Management
Agency, the village of Lemont, and the village of Romeoville.
Moderate flood stage will change from 11.0 feet to 13.0 feet. Major
flood stage will change from 12.0 feet to 15.0 feet.
No changes are being made to the action stage of 9.5 feet or the
minor flood stage of 10.0 feet. River forecasts will continue to be
issued when this location has reached, or is expected to reach,
action stage.
Forecast and warning information is available from the
NOAA/NWS Chicago web page at weather.gov/chicago as well as the
NOAA/NWS Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service (AHPS) web page
at water.weather.gov.
If you have any questions regarding this change, please contact:
W. Scott Lincoln
scott.lincoln@noaa.gov
815-834-0600 x493</pre>
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