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River Flood Warning 29, NWS Grand Forks, ND

April 17, 2023Pembina County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this river flood warning at Apr 17, 2023, 11:39 AM CDT for Pembina County, North Dakota. It took effect at Apr 17, 2023, 1:16 PM CDT. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 17, 2023, 11:39 AM CDT (16:39 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 17, 2023, 1:16 PM CDT
Expired: Apr 21, 2023, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Moderate

County Pembina County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:43 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 Pembina River at Neche (NCEN8). The gauge peaked at 21.00 ft at Apr 18, 2023, 8:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 16 ft
Minor stage: 18 ft
Moderate stage: 19 ft
Major stage: 20.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05100000, 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 17, 6:53 AM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 6:53 AM CDT, 4 hours 46 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 17, 10:51 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FGF	Kittson, Marshall, Polk	7 days
Apr 16, 7:24 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FGF	Walsh	65 hr
Apr 17, 1:20 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FGF	Cavalier, Pembina	54 hr
Apr 17, 10:59 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FGF	Cass	21 days
Apr 17, 10:59 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FGF	Cass	14 days
Apr 17, 2:22 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FGF	Traill	21 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in North Dakota, 2023 Every river flood warning in 2023

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.