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River Flood Warning 5, NWS Aberdeen, SD

March 14, 2010Brown County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this river flood warning at Mar 14, 2010, 4:02 PM CDT for Brown County, South Dakota. It took effect at Mar 15, 2010, 5:06 AM CDT. It was in force for 163 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 14, 2010, 4:02 PM CDT (21:02 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 15, 2010, 5:06 AM CDT
Expired: Aug 25, 2010, 12:50 PM CDT
In force: 163 days
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Flood severity: Major

County Brown County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Columbia (CMBS2).

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 13 ft
Moderate stage: 16 ft
Major stage: 18 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06471000, 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 14, 3:16 PM CDT, 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 3:16 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 14, 1:41 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABR	Codington	72 hr
Mar 14, 3:32 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ABR	Codington	25 days
Mar 14, 4:02 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ABR	Spink	40 days
Mar 14, 4:45 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ABR	Codington	62 hr
Mar 14, 4:45 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ABR	Codington	6 days
Mar 14, 4:45 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ABR	Hamlin	7 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in South Dakota, 2010 Every river flood warning in 2010

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.