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River Flood Warning 8, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

March 18, 2009Beadle County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this river flood warning at Mar 18, 2009, 11:34 AM CDT for Beadle County, South Dakota. It took effect at Mar 19, 2009, 8:33 AM CDT. It was in force for 140 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 18, 2009, 11:34 AM CDT (16:34 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 19, 2009, 8:33 AM CDT
Expired
Aug 6, 2009, 1:00 PM CDT
In force
140 days
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Flood severity
Minor

County Beadle County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:40 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 at Huron (HURS2).

Action stage
10.5 ft
Minor stage
11.5 ft
Moderate stage
15 ft
Major stage
19 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06476000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in South Dakota, 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.