Alert archive / Minnesota / River Flood Warnings in 2009
River Flood Warning 54, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this river flood warning at Jun 17, 2009, 9:08 AM CDT for Clay County, Minnesota. It took effect at Jun 19, 2009, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 10 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 2009, 9:08 AM CDT (14:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 19, 2009, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2009, 9:05 AM CDT
- In force
- 10 days
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Clay County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:09 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 Buffalo River (MN) near Dilworth (DILM5). The gauge peaked at 19.10 ft at Jun 22, 2009, 3:00 AM CDT.
- Action stage
- 12 ft
- Minor stage
- 13 ft
- Moderate stage
- 20 ft
- Major stage
- 26 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05062000, 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 Jun 16, 3:14 PM CDT, 17 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:14 PM CDT, 17 hours 54 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 9:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Richland | 13 hr |
| Jun 17, 2:26 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FGF | Ransom, Richland, Sargent | 11 hr |
| Jun 17, 8:47 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FGF | Richland | 9 days |
| Jun 17, 9:29 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FGF | Cass | 16 days |
| Jun 17, 10:01 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FGF | Cass, Richland | 24 hr |
| Jun 17, 3:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Richland | 49 min |
| Jun 17, 9:08 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FGF | Clay | 10 days |
| Jun 17, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Wilkin | 50 min |
| Jun 17, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Grant, Otter Tail, Wilkin | 60 min |
Nearby
River Flood Warnings in Minnesota, 2009Every 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.