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River Flood Warning 11, NWS Pocatello, ID

April 17, 2017Bingham County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this river flood warning at Apr 17, 2017, 9:44 AM MDT for Bingham County, Idaho. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 17, 2017, 9:44 AM MDT (15:44 UTC)
Expired: Apr 18, 2017, 10:00 AM MDT
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Pocatello, ID
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Bingham County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Snake River at Blackfoot (SNAI1). The gauge peaked at 10.51 ft at Apr 17, 2017, 3:00 AM MDT.

Action stage: 9.5 ft
Minor stage: 10.5 ft
Moderate stage: 11.5 ft
Major stage: 13 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 13062500, 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 Pocatello, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Apr 17, 6:39 AM MDT, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 6:39 AM MDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 17, 2:59 AM MDT	Wind Advisory	PIH		17 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Idaho, 2017 Every river flood warning in 2017

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.