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Areal Flood Warning 7, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this areal flood warning at Jun 26, 2014, 8:32 PM CDT for O'Brien County, Sioux County, Iowa. It was in force for 12 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2014, 8:32 PM CDT (01:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2014, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties O'Brien County, IA, Sioux County, IA
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal 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 areal flood warning went out at Jun 26, 7:57 PM CDT, 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 7:57 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 259 PM CDT THU JUN 26 2014 NEZ013-SDZ038>040-050-052>071-272000- DIXON-BEADLE-KINGSBURY-BROOKINGS-GREGORY-JERAULD-SANBORN-MINER- LAKE-MOODY-BRULE-AURORA-DAVISON-HANSON-MCCOOK-MINNEHAHA- CHARLES MIX-DOUGLAS-HUTCHINSON-TURNER-LINCOLN-BON HOMME-YANKTON- CLAY-UNION- 259 PM CDT THU JUN 26 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA...EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CANNOT BE RULED OUT THROUGH TONIGHT. BUT SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE FRIDAY AND ESPECIALLY FRIDAY NIGHT...DECREASING IN COVERAGE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS FRIDAY NIGHT...COUPLED WITH AREAS OF HEAVY RAINFALL. RAINFALL RATES FRIDAY NIGHT COULD EASILY APPROACH AN INCH OR TWO PER HOUR POSSIBLY CAUSING SOME FLASH FLOODING CONCERNS IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097- 098-NEZ014-272000- LYON-OSCEOLA-DICKINSON-SIOUX-OBRIEN-CLAY-PLYMOUTH-CHEROKEE- BUENA VISTA-WOODBURY-IDA-LINCOLN-MURRAY-COTTONWOOD-NOBLES-JACKSON- PIPESTONE-ROCK-DAKOTA- 259 PM CDT THU JUN 26 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST IOWA...SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FOUND EAST OF INTERSTATE 29 LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO EARLY THURSDAY EVENING. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BE MARGINALLY SEVERE...WITH THE MAIN THREAT DIME TO QUARTER SIZED HAIL. IN ADDITION...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE AROUND FRIDAY NIGHT. THEN A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER EXISTS FOR SATURDAY. WITH THE SEVERE RISK...AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN ARE QUITE POSSIBLE EAST OF INTERSTATE 29 SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FLASH FLOODING IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IS POSSIBLE. THE NEXT EVENT WILL BE SUNDAY EVENING WHEN THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER. HOWEVER INDICATIONS HAVE NOT BEEN AS CONSISTENT WITH THIS FEATURE...THEREFORE EXACT LOCATION OF THE SEVERE WEATHER IS HARD TO ASCERTAIN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY NOT BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 26, 6:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 3:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more | 13 hr |
| Jun 27, 11:46 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Sioux | 32 hr |
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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.