Alert archive / South Dakota / River Flood Warnings in 2014

River Flood Warning 1, NWS Aberdeen, SD

March 11, 2014Corson County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this river flood warning at Mar 11, 2014, 3:18 AM MDT for Corson County, South Dakota. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 11, 2014, 3:18 AM MDT (09:18 UTC)
Expired
Mar 11, 2014, 8:55 PM MDT
In force
18 hr
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Corson County, SD

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:16 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 Grand River (SD) near Little Eagle (LIES2).

Action stage
13 ft
Minor stage
15 ft
Moderate stage
17 ft
Major stage
21 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06357800, 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 Aberdeen, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Mar 11, 2:53 AM MDT, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 11, 2:53 AM MDT, 25 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 10, 2:20 PM MDT, 12 hours 58 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
320 PM CDT MON MAR 10 2014

MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-112030-
TRAVERSE-BIG STONE-CORSON-CAMPBELL-MCPHERSON-BROWN-MARSHALL-
ROBERTS-WALWORTH-EDMUNDS-DAY-DEWEY-POTTER-FAULK-SPINK-CLARK-
CODINGTON-GRANT-HAMLIN-DEUEL-STANLEY-SULLY-HUGHES-HYDE-HAND-JONES-
LYMAN-BUFFALO-
320 PM CDT MON MAR 10 2014 /220 PM MDT MON MAR 10 2014/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL
MINNESOTA...CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND
NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

RAIN AND SNOW WILL MOVE ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA LATER TONIGHT.
INITIALLY THE PRECIPITATION WILL BE IN THE FORM OF RAIN...WITH A
GRADUAL SWITCH TO SNOW FROM NORTH TO SOUTH LATE TONIGHT. IN
GENERAL...1 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW IS EXPECTED WITH LOCALLY HIGHER
AMOUNTS POSSIBLE...MAINLY ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

MORNING SNOW ON TUESDAY SHOULD GIVE WAY TO SOME SUN BY LATE
MORNING OR AFTERNOON.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

TDK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 11, 12:49 AM MDTAreal Flood WarningABRCorson8 hr
Mar 11, 9:33 AM MDTAreal Flood WarningABRCorson21 hr
Mar 11, 11:36 AM MDTAreal Flood WarningABRCorson24 hr
Mar 11, 1:46 PM MDTRiver Flood WarningABRDewey67 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in South Dakota, 2014Every river flood warning in 2014

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.