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River Flood Warning 92, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

July 6, 2010McCook County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this river flood warning at Jul 6, 2010, 8:59 AM CDT for McCook County, South Dakota. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 6, 2010, 8:59 AM CDT (13:59 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2010, 9:41 AM CDT
In force: 4 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 14:01 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 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 Jul 6, 4:50 AM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 4:50 AM CDT, 4 hours 9 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
Jul 6, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brule	46 min
Jul 6, 3:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Brule	44 min
Jul 6, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brule	47 min
Jul 6, 4:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Brule	34 min
Jul 6, 4:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Brule	46 min
Jul 6, 5:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Aurora, Brule, Charles Mix	49 min
Jul 6, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Aurora, Brule, Charles Mix, Douglas	47 min
Jul 6, 6:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Aurora, Brule, Charles Mix, Douglas	47 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in South Dakota, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.