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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Cheyenne, WY

May 20, 2010Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this river flood warning at May 20, 2010, 9:55 AM MDT for Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska. It took effect at May 20, 2010, 10:04 AM MDT. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 20, 2010, 9:55 AM MDT (15:55 UTC)
In effect from: May 20, 2010, 10:04 AM MDT
Expired: May 20, 2010, 2:18 PM MDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Cheyenne, WY
Flood severity: Minor

County Scotts Bluff County, NE

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:57 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 North Platte River near Minatare (MNTN1).

Action stage: 8.5 ft
Minor stage: 9.5 ft
Moderate stage: 10.5 ft
Major stage: 11.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06682000, 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 Cheyenne, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at May 20, 3:43 AM MDT, 6 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 20, 3:43 AM MDT, 6 hours 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 20, 5:56 AM MDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 20, 8:11 AM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	CYS	Carbon	28 hr
May 20, 8:12 AM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	CYS	Carbon	28 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Nebraska, 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.