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River Flood Warning 8, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
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 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.
- 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.