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River Flood Warning 27, NWS Bismarck, ND

September 9, 2010Mercer County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this river flood warning at Sep 9, 2010, 9:55 PM MDT for Mercer County, North Dakota. It took effect at Sep 10, 2010, 4:34 AM MDT. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 9, 2010, 9:55 PM MDT (03:55 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 10, 2010, 4:34 AM MDT
Expired: Sep 10, 2010, 6:53 AM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Flood severity: Minor

County Mercer County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Spring Creek (ND) at Zap (ZAPN8). The gauge peaked at 14.84 ft at Sep 10, 2010, 1:00 AM MDT.

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06340000, 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 Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Sep 9, 7:50 PM MDT, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 9, 7:50 PM MDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 9, 2:59 PM MDT, 6 hours 56 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
359 PM CDT THU SEP 9 2010

NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-102100-
DIVIDE-BURKE-RENVILLE-BOTTINEAU-ROLETTE-WILLIAMS-MOUNTRAIL-WARD-
MCHENRY-PIERCE-MCKENZIE-DUNN-MERCER-OLIVER-MCLEAN-SHERIDAN-WELLS-
FOSTER-GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-STARK-MORTON-BURLEIGH-KIDDER-
STUTSMAN-SLOPE-HETTINGER-GRANT-BOWMAN-ADAMS-SIOUX-EMMONS-LOGAN-
LA MOURE-MCINTOSH-DICKEY-
359 PM CDT THU SEP 9 2010 /259 PM MDT THU SEP 9 2010/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST ACROSS SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA
THIS AFTERNOON...MOVING INTO THE CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST PORTIONS
OF THE STATE INTO THE EVENING. THE PRIMARY THREATS WILL BE LARGE
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO
POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA IN THE AFTERNOON
AND EVENING.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST OF HIGHWAY 83
THURSDAY NIGHT AND INTO FRIDAY MORNING. HEAVY RAIN WILL BE THE
PRIMARY THREAT...WITH STREET AND RURAL FLOODING A CONCERN FOR
AREAS THAT HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL EARLIER ON
THURSDAY. A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHERN JAMES RIVER
VALLEY THURSDAY EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

RAIN SHOWERS WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS
WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA FRIDAY...SOME PRODUCING HEAVY
RAINFALL EAST OF HIGHWAY 83 IN THE MORNING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND INTO THE
NIGHT. SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND THROUGH
THE NIGHT.

AYD

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 9, 7:56 PM MDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 9, 7:58 PM MDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 9, 8:05 PM MDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 9, 8:11 PM MDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 9, 8:33 PM MDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 9, 8:41 PM MDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 9, 6:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, Mercer	42 min
Sep 9, 6:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer, Oliver	57 min
Sep 9, 6:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, Mercer	50 min
Sep 9, 6:49 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Mercer, Oliver	2 hr
Sep 9, 7:14 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Dunn, Mercer, Oliver	4 hr
Sep 9, 7:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, McLean, Mercer	59 min
Sep 9, 7:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Golden Valley, McKenzie	56 min
Sep 9, 7:52 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Dunn, McKenzie, Mountrail	4 hr
Sep 9, 8:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie, Williams	43 min
Sep 9, 8:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Dunn, McKenzie	46 min
Sep 9, 9:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, McKenzie, Mountrail	47 min
Sep 9, 9:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, McKenzie, McLean, Mountrail	45 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in North 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.