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River Flood Warning 28, NWS Aberdeen, SD

August 17, 2009Spink County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this river flood warning at Aug 17, 2009, 9:57 AM CDT for Spink County, South Dakota. It was in force for 19 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 17, 2009, 9:57 AM CDT (14:57 UTC)
Expired: Sep 5, 2009, 9:09 AM CDT
In force: 19 days
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Flood severity: Minor

County Spink County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 James River near Ashton (ATNS2).

Action stage: 11 ft
Minor stage: 13 ft
Moderate stage: 14 ft
Major stage: 16 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06473000, 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 Aberdeen, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Aug 16, 3:07 PM CDT, 18 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 3:07 PM CDT, 18 hours 50 minutes before

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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.