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River Flood Warning 318, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

September 14, 2019Union County, South Dakota; Woodbury County, Iowa

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this river flood warning at Sep 14, 2019, 11:34 AM CDT for Union County, South Dakota; Woodbury County, Iowa. It took effect at Sep 16, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 14, 2019, 11:34 AM CDT (16:34 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 16, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired: Sep 19, 2019, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Woodbury County, IA, Union County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Missouri River at Sioux City (SSCN1). The gauge peaked at 29.73 ft at Sep 17, 2019, 9:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 25 ft
Minor stage: 30 ft
Moderate stage: 33 ft
Major stage: 36 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06486000, 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 14, 6:24 AM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 14, 6:24 AM CDT, 5 hours 10 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
Sep 13, 7:45 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Minnehaha	6 days
Sep 13, 9:31 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Bon Homme, Charles Mix	21 days
Sep 14, 1:53 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Union	7 days
Sep 14, 4:50 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Union	21 days
Sep 14, 10:25 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FSD	Aurora, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Davison, Douglas and 4 more	48 hr
Sep 14, 1:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FSD	Hanson, Lake, McCook, Miner, Minnehaha, Moody	48 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in South Dakota, 2019 River Flood Warnings in Iowa, 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.