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River Flood Warning 269, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

September 9, 2019Brookings County, Moody County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this river flood warning at Sep 9, 2019, 11:43 AM CDT for Brookings County, Moody County, South Dakota. It took effect at Sep 11, 2019, 9:01 AM CDT. It was in force for 20 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 9, 2019, 11:43 AM CDT (16:43 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 11, 2019, 9:01 AM CDT
Expired: Oct 1, 2019, 9:44 AM CDT
In force: 20 days
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Brookings County, SD, Moody County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Big Sioux River near Brookings (BRKS2). The gauge peaked at 14.38 ft at Sep 13, 2019, 10:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 8 ft
Minor stage: 9 ft
Moderate stage: 10.5 ft
Major stage: 15 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06480000, 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 Sep 9, 6:49 AM CDT, 4 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 9, 6:49 AM CDT, 4 hours 54 minutes before

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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.