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River Flood Watch 9, NWS Grand Forks, ND

May 11, 2014Kittson County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this river flood watch at May 11, 2014, 8:06 PM CDT for Kittson County, Minnesota. It took effect at May 13, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 11, 2014, 8:06 PM CDT (01:06 UTC)
In effect from: May 13, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired: May 19, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 days
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Kittson County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 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 Two Rivers River at Hallock (HLLM5).

Action stage: 800 ft
Minor stage: 802 ft
Moderate stage: 806 ft
Major stage: 810 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05095000, 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 watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood watch went out at May 11, 7:06 PM CDT, 1 hour earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 11, 7:06 PM CDT, 1 hour before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 11, 3:51 AM CDT, 16 hours 15 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND
351 AM CDT SUN MAY 11 2014

MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-
026>030-038-039-049-052>054-121300-
WEST POLK-NORMAN-CLAY-KITTSON-ROSEAU-LAKE OF THE WOODS-
WEST MARSHALL-EAST MARSHALL-NORTH BELTRAMI-PENNINGTON-RED LAKE-
EAST POLK-NORTH CLEARWATER-SOUTH BELTRAMI-MAHNOMEN-
SOUTH CLEARWATER-HUBBARD-WEST BECKER-EAST BECKER-WILKIN-
WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-WADENA-GRANT-TOWNER-CAVALIER-
PEMBINA-BENSON-RAMSEY-EASTERN WALSH-EDDY-NELSON-GRAND FORKS-
GRIGGS-STEELE-TRAILL-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT-RICHLAND-
WESTERN WALSH-
351 AM CDT SUN MAY 11 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH
DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

TG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 11, 8:06 PM CDT	River Flood Watch	FGF	Clay	5 days
May 11, 8:06 PM CDT	River Flood Watch	FGF	Clay	8 days
May 11, 8:20 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FGF	Clay	7 days
May 12, 3:53 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	FGF	Benson, Cavalier, Eddy, Ramsey, Towner	15 hr

Nearby

River Flood Watches in Minnesota, 2014 Every river flood watch 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.