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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Great Falls, MT

March 10, 2014Blaine County, Montana

NWS Great Falls, MT issued this river flood warning at Mar 10, 2014, 3:24 PM MDT for Blaine County, Montana. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 10, 2014, 3:24 PM MDT (21:24 UTC)
Expired: Mar 11, 2014, 3:24 PM MDT
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Great Falls, MT
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Moderate

County Blaine County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 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 Clear Creek (North-central MT) near Chinook near mouth (CCMM8).

Action stage: 4.5 ft
Minor stage: 5.5 ft
Moderate stage: 6.5 ft
Major stage: 8 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06142400, 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 Great Falls, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Mar 9, 5:19 PM MDT, 22 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 5:19 PM MDT, 22 hours 5 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Great Falls, MT issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 9, 6:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TFX	Glacier, Pondera, Teton	24 hr
Mar 10, 2:03 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TFX	Glacier, Pondera	72 hr
Mar 10, 2:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TFX	Broadwater, Gallatin, Jefferson	36 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Montana, 2014 Every 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.