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River Flood Warning 40, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

March 17, 2010Moody County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this river flood warning at Mar 17, 2010, 10:48 AM CDT for Moody County, South Dakota. It was in force for 5 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 17, 2010, 10:48 AM CDT (15:48 UTC)
Expired
Mar 22, 2010, 10:52 AM CDT
In force
5 days
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Flood severity
Minor

County Moody County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 17, 10:25 AM CDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 17, 10:25 AM CDT, 23 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 17, 4:47 AM CDT, 6 hours 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
447 AM CDT WED MAR 17 2010

SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098-
IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-181200-
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-
447 AM CDT WED MAR 17 2010

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

FLOODING...
FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE JAMES RIVER...VERMILLION
RIVER...BIG SIOUX AND LITTLE SIOUX RIVERS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
ALSO...FLOODING WILL OCCUR ON MANY TRIBUTARIES LEADING INTO THESE
MAIN STEM RIVERS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BRING RAIN AND SNOW TO THE AREA FRIDAY
AND FRIDAY NIGHT...POSSIBLY BEGINNING THURSDAY NIGHT. THE AIR IS
EXPECTED TO BE COLD ENOUGH TO PRODUCE ACCUMULATING SNOW FRIDAY
AND FRIDAY NIGHT. BECAUSE OF THE UNCERTAIN TRACK OF THIS
SYSTEM...IT IS	DIFFICULT AT THIS TIME TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH SNOW
WILL ACCUMULATE. THE BEST CHANCE OF SNOW ACCUMULATIONS APPEARS TO
BE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 90...BUT THE THREAT CANNOT YET BE ENTIRELY
DISMISSED TO THE NORTH.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT.

&&

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

WILLIAMS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 17, 4:30 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFSDRock5 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.