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River Flood Warning 27, NWS Aberdeen, SD

March 28, 2019Codington County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this river flood warning at Mar 28, 2019, 12:45 PM CDT for Codington County, South Dakota. It was in force for 6 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 28, 2019, 12:45 PM CDT (17:45 UTC)
Expired
Apr 3, 2019, 10:52 PM CDT
In force
6 days
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Codington County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:45 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 Lake Kampeska at Watertown Water Plant (KMPS2). The gauge peaked at 21.68 ft at Mar 30, 2019, 1:00 AM CDT.

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Action stage
19 ft
Minor stage
21 ft
Moderate stage
22 ft
Major stage
22.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06479449, 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 Aberdeen, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Mar 27, 6:31 PM CDT, 18 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 27, 6:31 PM CDT, 18 hours 14 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 27, 8:22 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningABRCorson11 days
Mar 27, 9:02 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningABRHand24 hr
Mar 28, 12:05 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningABRCodington6 days
Mar 28, 7:31 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningABRHughes51 hr
Mar 28, 5:23 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningABRDeuel28 hr
Mar 28, 6:47 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningABRBig Stone7 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in South Dakota, 2019Every river flood warning in 2019

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.