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River Flood Warning 111, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

July 22, 2010Bon Homme County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this river flood warning at Jul 22, 2010, 5:08 PM CDT for Bon Homme County, South Dakota. It was in force for 3 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 22, 2010, 5:08 PM CDT (22:08 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 2010, 10:37 PM CDT
In force
3 days
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Flood severity
Minor

County Bon Homme County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 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 Missouri River at Springfield (SPGS2).

Action stage
9.4 ft
Minor stage
11 ft
Moderate stage
13 ft
Major stage
15 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06466700, 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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jul 22, 4:40 PM CDT, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 4:40 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 22, 11:40 AM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1140 AM CDT THU JUL 22 2010

SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098-
IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-231200-
AURORA-BEADLE-BON HOMME-BROOKINGS-BRULE-BUENA VISTA IA-
CHARLES MIX-CHEROKEE IA-CLAY-CLAY IA-COTTONWOOD MN-DAKOTA NE-
DAVISON-DICKINSON IA-DIXON NE-DOUGLAS-GREGORY-HANSON-HUTCHINSON-
IDA IA-JACKSON MN-JERAULD-KINGSBURY-LAKE-LINCOLN-LINCOLN MN-
LYON IA-LYON MN-MCCOOK-MINER-MINNEHAHA-MOODY-MURRAY MN-NOBLES MN-
OBRIEN IA-OSCEOLA IA-PIPESTONE MN-PLYMOUTH IA-ROCK MN-SANBORN-
SIOUX IA-TURNER-UNION-WOODBURY IA-YANKTON-
1140 AM CDT THU JUL 22 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS...
THERE IS A CHANCE FOR STORMS TO REDEVELOP VERY LATE THIS
AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING HOURS FROM SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA
TOWARD NORTHEAST NEBRASKA...AND THEN A BIT LATER INTO THE NIGHT
THROUGH NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. WIDESPREAD SEVERE
WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...HOWEVER ISOLATED STORMS MAY PRODUCE
DAMAGING WINDS TO AROUND 50 MPH AND DIME SIZE HAIL.

FLOODING...
HEAVY RAINFALL FROM OVERNIGHT LAST NIGHT HAS PRODUCED RIVER
FLOODING FOR THE VERMILLION...BIG SIOUX...AND LITTLE SIOUX
RIVERS...AND FLOODING CONTINUES ALONG THE JAMES RIVER.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

A POTENT SEVERE WEATHER SETUP LOOKS TO EXIST FROM FRIDAY
AFTERNOON INTO FRIDAY EVENING. STORMS SHOULD ERUPT RAPIDLY IN THE
MID TO LATE AFTERNOON HOURS ACROSS CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...AND
EXPAND ALONG A FRONTAL BOUNDARY SITTING NEAR INTERSTATE 90.
THERE WILL BE A THREAT FOR TORNADOES THROUGH SHORTLY AFTER
SUNSET...AND STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 80
MPH AND HAIL TO HEN EGG SIZE. THE SEVERE THREAT WILL DROP OFF
SOMEWHAT AFTER SUNSET AS STORMS SPREAD INTO NORTHWEST IOWA...WITH
A CONTINUED DAMAGING WIND THREAT AND HAIL TO HALF DOLLAR SIZE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE AFTER 6 PM CDT.

&&

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT
WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SIOUXFALLS. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS
WEATHER OUTLOOK.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 22, 12:34 PM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 21, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDJerauld45 min
Jul 21, 7:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDAurora, Brule37 min
Jul 21, 7:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDJerauld, Sanborn43 min
Jul 21, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDAurora, Brule, Charles Mix, Douglas38 min
Jul 21, 7:54 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDDavison, Hanson, Sanborn6 hr
Jul 21, 9:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDLincoln, Minnehaha6 hr
Jul 21, 10:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDLincoln, Minnehaha6 hr
Jul 21, 11:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDClay, Lincoln, Turner, Union, Yankton7 hr
Jul 22, 2:08 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDUnion4 hr
Jul 22, 2:48 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFSDTurner56 hr
Jul 22, 10:20 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFSDLincoln, Union6 days
Jul 22, 10:20 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFSDUnion6 days
Jul 22, 10:20 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFSDTurner11 hr
Jul 22, 10:20 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFSDTurner5 days
Jul 22, 10:20 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFSDClay23 days
Jul 22, 10:20 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFSDClay11 hr
Jul 22, 2:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchFSDBeadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Clay, Davison, Hanson and 12 more35 hr
Jul 22, 5:08 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFSDBon Homme, Charles Mix17 hr
Jul 22, 5:08 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFSDBon Homme29 hr
Jul 21, 11:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDClay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola5 hr
Jul 22, 12:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCherokee, O'Brien, Plymouth, Sioux46 min
Jul 22, 1:03 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, O'Brien6 hr
Jul 22, 1:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Ida51 min
Jul 22, 10:39 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFSDO'Brien26 hr
Jul 22, 10:39 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFSDSioux3 days
Jul 22, 10:39 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFSDClay, Dickinson10 days
Jul 22, 10:39 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFSDClay10 days
Jul 22, 10:39 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFSDBuena Vista, Clay13 days
Jul 22, 10:39 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFSDMonona, Woodbury10 hr
Jul 22, 2:16 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFSDCherokee7 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in South Dakota, 2010Every 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.