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River Flood Warning 9, NWS Great Falls, MT

June 18, 2008Gallatin County, Montana

NWS Great Falls, MT issued this river flood warning at Jun 18, 2008, 11:47 AM MDT for Gallatin County, Montana. It took effect at Jun 18, 2008, 6:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 12 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 18, 2008, 11:47 AM MDT (17:47 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 18, 2008, 6:00 PM MDT
Expired: Jun 30, 2008, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 12 days
Issued by: NWS Great Falls, MT
Flood severity: Minor

County Gallatin County, MT

The radar

The Billings radar (KBLX), 202 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:50 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 Gallatin River at Logan (LOGM8).

Action stage: 8 ft
Minor stage: 9 ft
Moderate stage: 10 ft
Major stage: 11 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06052500, 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 Great Falls, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jun 18, 9:38 AM MDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 9:38 AM MDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 5:10 AM MDT, 6 hours 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 18, 9:04 AM MDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Great Falls, MT issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 6:06 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	TFX	Fergus	24 min
Jun 17, 6:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TFX	Chouteau, Hill, Liberty	46 min
Jun 17, 6:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TFX	Fergus	16 min
Jun 17, 10:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TFX	Fergus	44 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Montana, 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.