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River Flood Warning 94, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

July 7, 2010Brookings County, Moody County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this river flood warning at Jul 7, 2010, 9:54 AM CDT for Brookings County, Moody County, South Dakota. It took effect at Jul 9, 2010, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 7, 2010, 9:54 AM CDT (14:54 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 9, 2010, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired: Jul 9, 2010, 10:29 AM CDT
In force: 3 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 14:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Jul 7, 3:50 AM CDT, 6 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 3:50 AM CDT, 6 hours 4 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, 7:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Aurora, Davison, Douglas	47 min
Jul 6, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brule	45 min
Jul 6, 7:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Aurora, Davison, Douglas, Hanson, Hutchinson	26 min
Jul 6, 8:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Aurora, Brule	30 min
Jul 6, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Aurora, Brule	30 min
Jul 6, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Aurora, Brule	28 min
Jul 6, 9:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Aurora, Brule	3 hr
Jul 6, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Kingsbury	43 min
Jul 7, 12:23 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Brookings, Davison, Hanson, Jerauld and 5 more	3 hr
Jul 7, 12:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brookings	37 min
Jul 7, 1:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brookings, Kingsbury, Lake, Moody	33 min
Jul 7, 1:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brookings, Moody	34 min
Jul 7, 7:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Brookings	6 days
Jul 7, 2:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Clay	3 hr
Jul 7, 2:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Cherokee	3 hr

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.