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River Flood Warning 6, NWS Grand Forks, ND

March 13, 2010Clay County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this river flood warning at Mar 13, 2010, 7:18 AM CST for Clay County, Minnesota. It was in force for 10 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 13, 2010, 7:18 AM CST (13:18 UTC)
Expired: Mar 23, 2010, 9:46 AM CDT
In force: 10 days
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Flood severity: Moderate

County Clay County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:21 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 South Branch Buffalo River at Sabin (SABM5). The gauge peaked at 17.57 ft at Mar 15, 2010, 3:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 13 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 05061500, 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 Mar 13, 4:19 AM CST, 2 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 4:19 AM CST, 2 hours 59 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 13, 3:53 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	FGF	Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 5 more	6 hr
Mar 13, 7:18 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FGF	Polk	7 days
Mar 13, 10:38 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FGF	Pennington	3 days
Mar 13, 10:38 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FGF	Kittson	10 days
Mar 13, 10:38 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FGF	Norman	25 days
Mar 13, 11:25 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FGF	Norman	26 days
Mar 13, 5:10 PM CST	River Flood Warning	FGF	Norman	15 days
Mar 13, 10:38 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FGF	Richland	29 days

Nearby

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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.