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River Flood Warning 31, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 4, 2013McHenry County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this river flood warning at Jun 4, 2013, 9:13 PM CDT for McHenry County, North Dakota. It took effect at Jun 6, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 10 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 2013, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 6, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jun 16, 2013, 10:11 AM CDT
In force: 10 days
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Flood severity: Minor

County McHenry County, ND

The radar

The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:14 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 Wintering River below Karlsruhe (KLSN8).

Action stage: 1508 ft
Minor stage: 1509 ft
Moderate stage: 1511 ft
Major stage: 1512 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05120500, 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 Jun 4, 3:44 PM CDT, 5 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 3:44 PM CDT, 5 hours 29 minutes before

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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.