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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Pocatello, ID

March 22, 2018Blaine County, Lincoln County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this river flood warning at Mar 22, 2018, 8:16 PM MDT for Blaine County, Lincoln County, Idaho. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 22, 2018, 8:16 PM MDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired: Mar 23, 2018, 1:55 PM MDT
In force: 18 hr
Issued by: NWS Pocatello, ID
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Blaine County, ID, Lincoln County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:15 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 Little Wood River near Carey (WODI1). The gauge peaked at 6.23 ft at Mar 22, 2018, 10:00 PM MDT.

Action stage: 5 ft
Minor stage: 5.8 ft
Moderate stage: 7.5 ft
Major stage: 9 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 13148500, 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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 22, 6:32 PM MDT, 1 hour 44 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 22, 6:16 PM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	PIH	Blaine, Butte, Minidoka	18 hr
Mar 22, 6:30 PM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	PIH	Butte, Clark	42 hr
Mar 22, 6:43 PM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	PIH	Butte	18 hr
Mar 22, 9:11 PM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	PIH	Fremont, Madison	39 hr
Mar 22, 10:08 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PIH	Bingham, Bonneville	12 hr
Mar 23, 6:22 AM MDT	River Flood Watch	PIH	Bannock	21 days
Mar 23, 10:27 AM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	PIH	Fremont, Madison	50 hr
Mar 23, 3:47 PM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	PIH	Jefferson	45 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Idaho, 2018 Every river flood warning in 2018

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.