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River Flood Warning 8, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

May 6, 2024Clay County, Iowa

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this river flood warning at May 6, 2024, 1:27 PM CDT for Clay County, Iowa. It took effect at May 7, 2024, 5:26 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 6, 2024, 1:27 PM CDT (18:27 UTC)
In effect from
May 7, 2024, 5:26 AM CDT
Expired
May 13, 2024, 1:57 AM CDT
In force
6 days
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Clay County, IA

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 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 Ocheyedan River near Spencer (SPOI4). The gauge peaked at 10.13 ft at May 9, 2024, 3:00 PM CDT.

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Action stage
7 ft
Minor stage
8 ft
Moderate stage
9.5 ft
Major stage
10.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06605000, 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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at May 6, 11:57 AM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 11:57 AM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
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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.