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River Flood Warning 132, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

April 9, 2019Jackson County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this river flood warning at Apr 9, 2019, 10:41 AM CDT for Jackson County, Minnesota. It took effect at Apr 11, 2019, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 19 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 9, 2019, 10:41 AM CDT (15:41 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 11, 2019, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 30, 2019, 10:41 AM CDT
In force: 19 days
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Jackson County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point West Fork Des Moines River at Jackson (JCKM5). The gauge peaked at 12.06 ft at Apr 21, 2019, 2:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 10 ft
Minor stage: 12 ft
Moderate stage: 12.5 ft
Major stage: 14 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05476000, 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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Apr 9, 6:44 AM CDT, 3 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 9, 6:44 AM CDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 9, 3:52 AM CDT	Blizzard Warning	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 12 more	3 days
Apr 9, 10:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Minnehaha	8 days
Apr 9, 10:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Lincoln, Minnehaha	11 days
Apr 9, 10:55 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Turner	21 days
Apr 9, 10:55 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Turner	8 days
Apr 9, 10:55 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Davison	11 days
Apr 9, 10:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Clay	21 days
Apr 9, 10:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Cherokee	21 days
Apr 9, 10:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Monona, Woodbury	5 days
Apr 9, 10:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Lyon	9 days
Apr 9, 10:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Lyon, Sioux	10 days
Apr 9, 10:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Sioux	5 days
Apr 9, 10:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Plymouth	4 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Minnesota, 2019 Every 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.