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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Grand Forks, ND

March 13, 2015Nelson County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this flash flood watch at Mar 13, 2015, 11:54 AM CDT for Nelson County, North Dakota. It was in force for 23 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 13, 2015, 11:54 AM CDT (16:54 UTC)
Expired: Mar 14, 2015, 11:00 AM CDT
In force: 23 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Flood severity: None

County Nelson County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:54 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 flash 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 flash flood watch went out at Mar 13, 10:01 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 10:01 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 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.