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River Flood Warning 79, NWS Grand Forks, ND

May 1, 2022Roseau County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this river flood warning at May 1, 2022, 8:33 AM CDT for Roseau County, Minnesota. It took effect at May 2, 2022, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 1, 2022, 8:33 AM CDT (13:33 UTC)
In effect from: May 2, 2022, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired: May 2, 2022, 9:47 PM CDT
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Roseau County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:36 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 Roseau River at Roseau (ROSM5).

Action stage: 14 ft
Minor stage: 16 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 19 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05105000, 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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Apr 30, 3:53 PM CDT, 16 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 3:53 PM CDT, 16 hours 40 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 30, 7:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FGF	Beltrami, Clearwater, Marshall, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake and 1 more	6 days
Apr 30, 8:05 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FGF	Norman	27 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Minnesota, 2022 Every river flood warning in 2022

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.