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River Flood Warning 37, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

March 15, 2010Cherokee County, Plymouth County, Iowa

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this river flood warning at Mar 15, 2010, 11:06 AM CDT for Cherokee County, Plymouth County, Iowa. It was in force for 48 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 15, 2010, 11:06 AM CDT (16:06 UTC)
Expired: Mar 17, 2010, 11:30 AM CDT
In force: 48 hr
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Cherokee County, IA, Plymouth County, IA

The river

Written for the forecast point Floyd River at Le Mars (LMRI4).

Action stage: 18 ft
Minor stage: 20 ft
Moderate stage: 21 ft
Major stage: 26 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 Mar 15, 10:37 AM CDT, 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 10:37 AM CDT, 29 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 14, 10:11 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FSD	Lake	12 hr
Mar 14, 10:26 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Lyon, Sioux	61 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Iowa, 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; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.