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River Flood Warning 8, NWS Missoula, MT

June 15, 2022Flathead County, Montana

NWS Missoula, MT issued this river flood warning at Jun 15, 2022, 7:33 AM MDT for Flathead County, Montana. It took effect at Jun 15, 2022, 1:31 PM MDT. It was in force for 45 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 2022, 7:33 AM MDT (13:33 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 15, 2022, 1:31 PM MDT
Expired: Jun 17, 2022, 10:39 AM MDT
In force: 45 hr
Issued by: NWS Missoula, MT
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Flathead County, MT

The radar

The Missoula radar (KMSX), 140 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 Whitefish River near Kalispell (WHRM8). The gauge peaked at 4.95 ft at Jun 15, 2022, 9:00 PM MDT.

Action stage: 5 ft
Minor stage: 5.4 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 12366000, 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 Missoula, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jun 15, 2:42 AM MDT, 4 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:42 AM MDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Missoula, MT issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 3:55 PM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	MSO	Flathead	43 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Montana, 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.