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River Flood Warning 9, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 3, 2024Clay County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this river flood warning at Jun 3, 2024, 9:18 PM CDT for Clay County, Minnesota. It took effect at Jun 5, 2024, 9:24 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 2024, 9:18 PM CDT (02:18 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 5, 2024, 9:24 AM CDT
Expired: Jun 10, 2024, 5:08 PM CDT
In force: 5 days
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Clay County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Buffalo River (MN) near Dilworth (DILM5).

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 13 ft
Moderate stage: 20 ft
Major stage: 26 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05062000, 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, 6:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 6:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 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
Jun 4, 2:16 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	FGF	Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks and 11 more	31 hr
Jun 4, 9:30 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FGF	Clay	71 hr
Jun 4, 12:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Norman, Polk	42 min
Jun 4, 12:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Marshall, Pennington, Red Lake	48 min
Jun 4, 12:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Wadena	34 min
Jun 4, 1:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami	40 min
Jun 4, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Roseau	45 min

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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.