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River Flood Warning 6, NWS Pocatello, ID

March 22, 2017Bear Lake County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this river flood warning at Mar 22, 2017, 4:53 PM MDT for Bear Lake County, Idaho. It took effect at Mar 23, 2017, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 49 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 22, 2017, 4:53 PM MDT (22:53 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 23, 2017, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: Mar 25, 2017, 1:00 PM MDT
In force: 49 hr
Issued by: NWS Pocatello, ID
Flood severity: Minor

County Bear Lake County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Bear River at Border (BRBW4). The gauge peaked at 8.78 ft at Mar 25, 2017, 5:00 PM MDT.

Action stage: 7 ft
Minor stage: 7.5 ft
Moderate stage: 10.5 ft
Major stage: 11.7 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 10039500, 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 Mar 22, 2:09 PM MDT, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 22, 2:09 PM MDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 22, 1:34 PM MDT, 3 hours 19 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
Mar 21, 8:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Bingham, Butte, Power	60 min
Mar 21, 9:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Bonneville	3 hr
Mar 21, 10:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Bonneville, Madison, Teton	45 min
Mar 22, 3:54 AM MDT	River Flood Warning	PIH	Bear Lake	13 hr
Mar 22, 12:24 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PIH	Bannock	72 hr
Mar 22, 1:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Caribou	41 min

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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; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.