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River Flood Warning 17, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 3, 2008McCook County, Turner County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this river flood warning at Jun 3, 2008, 6:58 PM CDT for McCook County, Turner County, South Dakota. It was in force for 28 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 2008, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2008, 10:38 PM CDT
In force: 28 hr
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Flood severity: Minor

Counties McCook County, SD, Turner County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point West Fork Vermillion River near Parker (PKRS2).

Action stage: 8 ft
Minor stage: 9 ft
Moderate stage: 10 ft
Major stage: 12 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06478690, 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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jun 3, 4:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 4:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 11:02 AM CDT, 7 hours 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 3, 2:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 11:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brule, Charles Mix, Gregory	39 min
Jun 2, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Charles Mix, Gregory	47 min
Jun 3, 12:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Charles Mix, Douglas	17 min
Jun 3, 12:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Charles Mix, Douglas, Gregory	40 min
Jun 3, 1:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Charles Mix, Gregory	40 min
Jun 3, 1:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Hutchinson, Lincoln, Turner, Yankton	47 min
Jun 3, 1:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Bon Homme, Charles Mix	60 min
Jun 3, 1:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Hanson, Hutchinson, McCook, Turner	51 min
Jun 3, 1:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Bon Homme, Clay, Yankton	20 min
Jun 3, 2:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Lincoln, Minnehaha	116 min
Jun 3, 9:36 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Lincoln, Turner	9 days
Jun 3, 9:36 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Clay, Turner	11 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in South Dakota, 2008 Every 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.