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River Flood Warning 183, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this river flood warning at Sep 23, 2010, 3:48 PM CDT for McCook County, South Dakota. It was in force for 3 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 23, 2010, 3:48 PM CDT (20:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 2010, 8:44 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 days
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Flood severity
- Minor
County McCook County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Little Vermillion River near Salem (LVSS2).
- Action stage
- 6 ft
- Minor stage
- 7 ft
- Moderate stage
- 8 ft
- Major stage
- 9 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06478540, 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 23, 3:00 PM CDT, 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 23, 3:00 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1049 AM CDT THU SEP 23 2010 SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098- IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-241200- 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- 1049 AM CDT THU SEP 23 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS... ALONG WITH THE WIDESPREAD SHOWERS...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM TRACY MINNESOTA TO VERMILLION SOUTH DAKOTA...OVER NORTHWEST IOWA. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 60 MPH...SOME HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE...AND EVEN A BRIEF TORNADO. FLOODING... SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING HEAVY RAIN TO PARTS OF THE AREA TODAY...ESPECIALLY NEAR AND EAST OF THE BIG SIOUX RIVER. DUE TO SATURATED CONDITIONS...FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE IN THIS AREA. FLOODING OF RIVERS...STREAMS...AND CREEKS IS STILL A THREAT EVERYWHERE...INCLUDING WELL KNOWN RIVERS SUCH AS THE BIG SIOUX...LITTLE SIOUX...DES MOINES...AND REDWOOD. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY LOW PRESSURE MOVING SOUTHEAST OVER THE AREA FROM CANADA MAY BRING ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS LATE FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE AFTER 2 PM CDT...MAINLY SOUTHEAST OF LINE FROM TRACY MINNESOTA TO VERMILLION SOUTH DAKOTA. && FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SIOUXFALLS. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK. RSR
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 23, 2:53 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 7:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Brookings | 6 hr |
| Sep 22, 8:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Lake, Moody | 6 hr |
| Sep 22, 10:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Clay, Union, Yankton | 6 hr |
| Sep 22, 10:59 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Moody | 58 hr |
| Sep 22, 11:47 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Brookings, Moody | 11 days |
| Sep 22, 11:47 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Minnehaha, Moody | 11 days |
| Sep 22, 11:47 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 11 days |
| Sep 22, 11:47 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Minnehaha | 11 days |
| Sep 22, 11:47 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Union | 16 days |
| Sep 22, 11:47 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Union | 17 days |
| Sep 23, 1:30 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FSD | Brookings, Lake, Moody | 15 hr |
| Sep 23, 8:00 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 4 days |
| Sep 23, 9:29 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Turner | 7 days |
| Sep 23, 9:29 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Clay | 10 days |
| Sep 23, 9:29 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Hutchinson, Yankton | 8 days |
| Sep 23, 12:30 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Brookings | 4 days |
| Sep 22, 11:47 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Clay | 15 days |
| Sep 22, 11:47 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Clay | 13 days |
| Sep 23, 8:00 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Lyon | 5 days |
| Sep 23, 10:46 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Clay | 5 days |
| Sep 22, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 37 min |
| Sep 22, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 36 min |
| Sep 22, 8:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Lyon, Murray | 6 hr |
| Sep 22, 9:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles | 6 hr |
| Sep 22, 11:47 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson | 21 days |
| Sep 22, 11:47 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Jackson | 21 days |
| Sep 22, 11:47 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Lyon | 8 days |
| Sep 22, 11:47 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Lyon | 8 days |
| Sep 23, 10:26 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FSD | Rock | 33 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.