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River Flood Warning 7, NWS Aberdeen, SD

March 17, 2009Hamlin County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this river flood warning at Mar 17, 2009, 8:54 PM CDT for Hamlin County, South Dakota. It was in force for 39 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 17, 2009, 8:54 PM CDT (01:54 UTC)
Expired: Mar 19, 2009, 12:09 PM CDT
In force: 39 hr
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Flood severity: Minor

County Hamlin County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:57 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 Big Sioux River near Castlewood (CSWS2).

Action stage: 8 ft
Minor stage: 9 ft
Moderate stage: 11 ft
Major stage: 16 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06479525, 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 Mar 17, 3:44 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 17, 3:44 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 17, 3:22 AM CDT, 17 hours 32 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
322 AM CDT TUE MAR 17 2009

SDZ016-017-033>037-045-048-051-180830-
POTTER-FAULK-STANLEY-SULLY-HUGHES-HYDE-HAND-JONES-LYMAN-BUFFALO-
322 AM CDT TUE MAR 17 2009 /222 AM MDT TUE MAR 17 2009/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL SOUTH
DAKOTA AND NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015-018>023-180830-
TRAVERSE-BIG STONE-CORSON-CAMPBELL-MCPHERSON-BROWN-MARSHALL-
ROBERTS-WALWORTH-EDMUNDS-DAY-DEWEY-SPINK-CLARK-CODINGTON-GRANT-
HAMLIN-DEUEL-
322 AM CDT TUE MAR 17 2009 /222 AM MDT TUE MAR 17 2009/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL
MINNESOTA...NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH
DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

CLOUDS AND COOLER AIR WILL RESULT LESS SNOW MELT THEN WHAT OCCURRED
DURING THE WEEKEND AND EARLY THIS WEEK. THERE STILL REMAINS THE
POTENTIAL TO SEE MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS DUE TO
ADDITIONAL RUN OFF OR ICE JAMS FOR NORTHERN/NORTHEASTERN
SOUTH DAKOTA...AS WELL AS WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

CONNELLY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 18, 9:30 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ABR	Traverse	24 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in South Dakota, 2009 Every river flood warning in 2009

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.