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River Flood Warning 14, NWS Aberdeen, SD

July 25, 2020Brown County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this river flood warning at Jul 25, 2020, 7:08 AM CDT for Brown County, South Dakota. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 25, 2020, 7:08 AM CDT (12:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2020, 7:21 PM CDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Major

County Brown County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:08 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 Elm River near Frederick (ERFS2). The gauge peaked at 19.56 ft at Jul 25, 2020, 1:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 13 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06471065, 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 Jul 25, 3:43 AM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 3:43 AM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 25, 4:44 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 25, 3:44 AM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 24, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown, McPherson	41 min
Jul 24, 10:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ABR	Brown, McPherson	36 hr
Jul 24, 11:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABR	Brown, McPherson	6 hr
Jul 25, 1:24 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ABR	Brown	4 days
Jul 25, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Corson	38 min
Jul 25, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Corson	60 min
Jul 25, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Campbell, Corson	48 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in South Dakota, 2020 Every river flood warning in 2020

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.