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River Flood Warning 15, NWS Grand Forks, ND

August 12, 2008Clay County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this river flood warning at Aug 12, 2008, 9:20 AM CDT for Clay County, Minnesota. It took effect at Aug 15, 2008, 3:24 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 12, 2008, 9:20 AM CDT (14:20 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 15, 2008, 3:24 PM CDT
Expired
Aug 13, 2008, 10:16 AM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Flood severity
Minor

County Clay County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Buffalo River (MN) near Dilworth (DILM5).

Action stage
12 ft
Minor stage
13 ft
Moderate stage
20 ft
Major stage
26 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05062000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Aug 12, 3:29 AM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 3:29 AM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 11, 9:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFWilkin8 hr
Aug 12, 9:20 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFGFClay25 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Minnesota, 2008Every river flood warning in 2008

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.