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River Flood Warning 8, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this river flood warning at Jun 3, 2024, 10:09 AM CDT for Richland County, North Dakota; Wilkin County, Minnesota. It took effect at Jun 3, 2024, 9:16 PM CDT. It was in force for 63 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2024, 10:09 AM CDT (15:09 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 3, 2024, 9:16 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2024, 12:44 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Wilkin County, MN, Richland County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Red River of the North at Wahpeton (WHNN8). The gauge peaked at 11.93 ft at Jun 5, 2024, 1:00 AM CDT.
- Action stage
- 9.5 ft
- Minor stage
- 11 ft
- Moderate stage
- 13 ft
- Major stage
- 15 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05051500, 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 Jun 3, 9:58 AM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 9:58 AM CDT, 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 2, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Barnes, Ransom | 41 min |
| Jun 2, 7:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Walsh | 25 min |
| Jun 2, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Ransom | 26 min |
| Jun 2, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom, Richland, Sargent | 53 min |
| Jun 2, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Ransom | 30 min |
| Jun 2, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom, Richland, Sargent | 62 min |
| Jun 2, 9:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Cavalier | 26 min |
| Jun 2, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Richland | 31 min |
| Jun 2, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Richland | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 2:34 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | FGF | Benson, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks, Nelson, Pembina and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 8:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Clay | 32 min |
| Jun 2, 10:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Wilkin | 48 min |
| Jun 3, 10:13 AM CDT | Flood Watch | FGF | Clay | 43 min |
Nearby
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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.