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River Flood Warning 13, NWS Pocatello, ID

May 17, 2023Butte County, Custer County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this river flood warning at May 17, 2023, 11:34 AM MDT for Butte County, Custer County, Idaho. It was in force for 29 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 17, 2023, 11:34 AM MDT (17:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2023, 11:43 AM MDT
In force: 29 days
Issued by: NWS Pocatello, ID
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Butte County, ID, Custer County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 Antelope Creek (ID) near Darlington (ACKI1). The gauge peaked at 6.88 ft at May 23, 2023, 8:00 AM MDT.

Action stage: 5.5 ft
Minor stage: 6 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 13131000, 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 Pocatello, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at May 16, 2:27 PM MDT, 21 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 16, 2:27 PM MDT, 21 hours 7 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 11:31 AM MDT	Flood Watch	PIH	Blaine, Custer	70 min
May 17, 11:49 AM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	PIH	Blaine	47 hr
May 17, 11:57 AM MDT	River Flood Watch	PIH	Blaine, Custer	4 days
May 17, 12:44 PM MDT	River Flood Watch	PIH	Blaine, Custer	6 days
May 17, 12:44 PM MDT	River Flood Watch	PIH	Blaine, Custer	13 days
May 17, 1:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Bear Lake	92 min
May 17, 2:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Butte	36 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Idaho, 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.