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River Flood Warning 23, NWS Bismarck, ND

May 22, 2013Ward County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this river flood warning at May 22, 2013, 11:41 AM CDT for Ward County, North Dakota. It took effect at May 23, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 42 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 2013, 11:41 AM CDT (16:41 UTC)
In effect from: May 23, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jul 4, 2013, 10:37 AM CDT
In force: 42 days
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Flood severity: Minor

County Ward County, ND

The radar

The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 Souris River near Foxholm (FOXN8). The gauge peaked at 12.14 ft at Jun 10, 2013, 2:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 1572 ft
Minor stage: 1573 ft
Moderate stage: 1576 ft
Major stage: 1578 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05116000, 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 Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at May 22, 10:12 AM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 10:12 AM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 3:50 AM CDT, 7 hours 51 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
350 AM CDT WED MAY 22 2013

NDZ004-012-037-230900-
BOTTINEAU-MCHENRY-STUTSMAN-
350 AM CDT WED MAY 22 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL
NORTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT THROUGHOUT THE LOWER SOURIS
BASIN ACROSS BOTTINEAU AND MCHENRY COUNTIES AND THE PIPESTEM CREEK
NEAR PINGREE IN STUTSMAN COUNTY. FOR DETAILED INFORMATION IN YOUR
AREA...VISIT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BISMARCK. FOR INFORMATION ON RIVER
STAGES AND FORECASTS CLICK ON THE RIVERS AND LAKES TAB NEAR THE
TOP OF THE MAIN PAGE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

NDZ001>003-005-009>011-013-017>023-025-031>036-040>048-050-051-
230900-
DIVIDE-BURKE-RENVILLE-ROLETTE-WILLIAMS-MOUNTRAIL-WARD-PIERCE-
MCKENZIE-DUNN-MERCER-OLIVER-MCLEAN-SHERIDAN-WELLS-FOSTER-
GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-STARK-MORTON-BURLEIGH-KIDDER-SLOPE-
HETTINGER-GRANT-BOWMAN-ADAMS-SIOUX-EMMONS-LOGAN-LA MOURE-MCINTOSH-
DICKEY-
350 AM CDT WED MAY 22 2013 /250 AM MDT WED MAY 22 2013/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL
NORTH DAKOTA...NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH
DAKOTA...SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

NH/TM

The office that day

Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 2:39 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Hettinger and 3 more	34 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in North Dakota, 2013 Every river flood warning in 2013

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.