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River Flood Warning 8, NWS Grand Forks, ND

March 13, 2010Richland County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this river flood warning at Mar 13, 2010, 10:38 AM CST for Richland County, North Dakota. It took effect at Mar 14, 2010, 9:06 AM CDT. It was in force for 28 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 13, 2010, 10:38 AM CST (16:38 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 14, 2010, 9:06 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 11, 2010, 8:57 AM CDT
In force: 28 days
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Flood severity: Major

County Richland County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:36 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 Wild Rice River (ND) near Abercrombie (ABRN8). The gauge peaked at 24.61 ft at Mar 19, 2010, 2:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 17 ft
Minor stage: 20 ft
Moderate stage: 22 ft
Major stage: 28 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05053000, 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, 9:56 AM CST, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 9:56 AM CST, 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 13, 10:22 AM CST, 16 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND
1022 AM CST SAT MAR 13 2010

MNZ002-003-029-NDZ039-053-141630-
NORMAN-CLAY-WILKIN-CASS-RICHLAND-
1022 AM CST SAT MAR 13 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH
DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

AREAL FLOODING WILL RESULT IN ROADS GOING UNDER WATER IN LOW LYING
AREAS. ROADS IN THE VICINITY OF WAHPETON AND BRECKENRIDGE WILL BE
ESPECIALLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO FLOODING. RIVER FLOODING HAS ALREADY
BEGUN IN THE SOUTHERN RED RIVER VALLEY. CHECK OUT THE LATEST
HYDROLOGIC PRODUCTS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON AREA RIVERS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

SLOW MELT CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND INTO
EARLY NEXT WEEK. AS THE SLOW MELT CONTINUES LOOK FOR ADDITIONAL
ROAD CLOSURES DUE TO OVERLAND AND RIVER FLOODING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

MNZ001-004>009-013>017-022>024-027-028-030>032-040-NDZ006>008-
014>016-024-026>030-038-049-052-054-141630-
WEST POLK-KITTSON-ROSEAU-LAKE OF THE WOODS-WEST MARSHALL-
EAST MARSHALL-NORTH BELTRAMI-PENNINGTON-RED LAKE-EAST POLK-
NORTH CLEARWATER-SOUTH BELTRAMI-MAHNOMEN-SOUTH CLEARWATER-HUBBARD-
WEST BECKER-EAST BECKER-WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-WADENA-
GRANT-TOWNER-CAVALIER-PEMBINA-BENSON-RAMSEY-EASTERN WALSH COUNTY-
EDDY-NELSON-GRAND FORKS-GRIGGS-STEELE-TRAILL-BARNES-RANSOM-
SARGENT-WESTERN WALSH COUNTY-
1022 AM CST SAT MAR 13 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH
DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

SLOW MELT CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND INTO
EARLY NEXT WEEK. AS THE SLOW MELT CONTINUES LOOK FOR THE
POSSIBILITY OF SOME ROAD CLOSURES DUE TO OVERLAND AND RIVER
FLOODING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

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	Clay	10 days
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

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.