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River Flood Warning 19, NWS Grand Forks, ND

March 21, 2009Cass County, Ransom County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this river flood warning at Mar 21, 2009, 10:36 AM CDT for Cass County, Ransom County, North Dakota. It took effect at Mar 23, 2009, 4:59 AM CDT. It was in force for 13 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 21, 2009, 10:36 AM CDT (15:36 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 23, 2009, 4:59 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 5, 2009, 11:35 AM CDT
In force: 13 days
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Flood severity: Major

Counties Cass County, ND, Ransom County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:34 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 Maple River (ND) near Enderlin (ENDN8). The gauge peaked at 14.06 ft at Mar 24, 2009, 4:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 8 ft
Minor stage: 9.5 ft
Moderate stage: 12 ft
Major stage: 14 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05059700, 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 Mar 21, 2:30 AM CDT, 8 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 21, 2:30 AM CDT, 8 hours 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 21, 6:37 AM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND
637 AM CDT SAT MAR 21 2009

MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-
026>030-038-039-049-052>054-221145-
WEST POLK-NORMAN-CLAY-KITTSON-ROSEAU-LAKE OF THE WOODS-
WEST MARSHALL-EAST MARSHALL-NORTH BELTRAMI-PENNINGTON-RED LAKE-
EAST POLK-NORTH CLEARWATER-SOUTH BELTRAMI-MAHNOMEN-
SOUTH CLEARWATER-HUBBARD-WEST BECKER-EAST BECKER-WILKIN-
WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-WADENA-GRANT-TOWNER-CAVALIER-
PEMBINA-BENSON-RAMSEY-EASTERN WALSH COUNTY-EDDY-NELSON-
GRAND FORKS-GRIGGS-STEELE-TRAILL-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT-
RICHLAND-WESTERN WALSH COUNTY-
637 AM CDT SAT MAR 21 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH
DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

DENSE FOG CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL
MINNESOTA THIS MORNING GENERALLY SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM WAHPETON
TO PARK RAPIDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

SOME RIVERS WILL BE IN FLOOD DURING THIS TIME AND RIVER INTERESTS
SHOULD MONITOR CONDITIONS AND UPDATED RIVER STAGES AND FORECASTS
FREQUENTLY. TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. NEVER DRIVE OVER FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

THE BIG STORY THIS PERIOD WILL BE SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY
WHEN A STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING PERIODS OF RAIN TO THE AREA WITH
TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES POSSIBLE OVER THAT PERIOD.
THE RAIN WILL CHANGE TO SNOW TUESDAY NIGHT AND THEN GRADUALLY END
ON WEDNESDAY. LOW PRESSURE WILL DEVELOP OVER COLORADO AND KANSAS
EARLY NEXT WEEK AND THEN MOVE INTO MINNESOTA BY TUESDAY NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

VOELKER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 20, 10:14 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FGF	Traill	45 days
Mar 20, 10:14 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FGF	Grand Forks	55 days
Mar 20, 10:14 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FGF	Grand Forks, Walsh	59 days
Mar 20, 10:14 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FGF	Cass, Richland	57 days
Mar 21, 10:36 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FGF	Cass	39 days
Mar 21, 3:07 PM CDT	Flood Watch	FGF	Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks and 11 more	21 hr
Mar 20, 10:14 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FGF	Polk	34 days
Mar 20, 10:14 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FGF	Kittson	15 days
Mar 20, 10:14 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FGF	Marshall	12 days
Mar 21, 4:07 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	FGF	Becker, Grant, Hubbard, Otter Tail, Wadena	7 hr
Mar 21, 2:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FGF	Clay, Norman, Wilkin	4 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in North 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.