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River Flood Warning 162, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

September 16, 2010Brookings County, Moody County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this river flood warning at Sep 16, 2010, 9:50 AM CDT for Brookings County, Moody County, South Dakota. It took effect at Sep 17, 2010, 11:26 PM CDT. It was in force for 22 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 16, 2010, 9:50 AM CDT (14:50 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 17, 2010, 11:26 PM CDT
Expired
Sep 18, 2010, 9:11 PM CDT
In force
22 hr
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Brookings County, SD, Moody County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:55 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 Big Sioux River near Brookings (BRKS2).

Action stage
8 ft
Minor stage
9 ft
Moderate stage
10.5 ft
Major stage
15 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06480000, 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 Sep 16, 6:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 6:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 15, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDIda, Woodbury44 min

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.