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River Flood Warning 19, NWS Grand Forks, ND

September 17, 2024Cavalier County, Pembina County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this river flood warning at Sep 17, 2024, 9:03 AM CDT for Cavalier County, Pembina County, North Dakota. It took effect at Sep 17, 2024, 9:34 AM CDT. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 17, 2024, 9:03 AM CDT (14:03 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 17, 2024, 9:34 AM CDT
Expired: Sep 17, 2024, 2:02 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Cavalier County, ND, Pembina County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Pembina River at Walhalla (WLHN8). The gauge peaked at 10.98 ft at Sep 17, 2024, 11:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 9 ft
Minor stage: 11 ft
Moderate stage: 16 ft
Major stage: 18 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05099600, 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 Sep 17, 7:18 AM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 17, 7:18 AM CDT, 1 hour 45 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
Sep 16, 7:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGF	Benson, Cavalier, Ramsey, Towner	6 hr
Sep 16, 7:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGF	Cavalier, Pembina	6 hr
Sep 16, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Benson	54 min
Sep 16, 10:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Towner	45 min
Sep 16, 11:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGF	Benson, Towner	7 hr
Sep 17, 9:16 AM CDT	Flood Watch	FGF	Pembina	7 min
Sep 17, 9:25 AM CDT	River Flood Watch	FGF	Pembina	30 hr

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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.