Heavy rain caused minor flooding of the Floyd River in Sioux County in northwest Iowa on June 13th and 14th.
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Heavy rain caused minor flooding of the Floyd River in Sioux County in northwest Iowa on June 13th and 14th.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 13, 2:40 AM CST, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 340 AM CDT FRI JUN 13 2008 .DISCUSSION... TODAY SHUD BE SIMILAR TO THU WITH SPOTTY AFTN TRW DEVELOPING MAINLY N OF I90. AGAIN WL HAVE AN INVERTED V SOUNDING WITH A WEAK S/W PROGGED TO MOVE ACRS CWA. WL NOT TAKE MUCH TO BREAK CAP AS CONVECTIVE TEMPS ARE 70 TO 75 ACRS THE N AND 75 TO 80 S. MOISTURE IS LIMITED SO NOT MORE THAN A 20 TO 30% POP. MAIN THREAT WUD AGAIN BE WINDS THAT CUD GUST TO 55 MPH. ALSO SHUD MIX OUT TO AT LEAST H8 AND THIS WUD TRANSLATE TO SFC WNDS INCREASING TO 20 TO 30 MPH WITH A FEW HIGHER GUSTS. CONVECTION SHUD QUIKCLY END ERLY THIS EVE AND WNDS SHUD ALSO DROP OFF. SAT SHUD SEE MORE SUN AND NOT AS MUCH WND. WARMER AIR ALOFT SHULD PUSH TEMPS INTO 80S MOST PLACES. WEAK BACKDOOR CDFNT CUD SET OF A TRW FAR NE AND WL LEAVE SMALL POP IN DURING THE LATE AFTN. WEAK BDNRY SHUD STALL ACRS CWA SAT NITE AND CUD SEE A FEW TRW. MOISTURE WL BE LIMITED BUT IF TRW COULD GET GOING...BEST CHC WUD BE ACRS ERN CWA ALONG NOSE OF MID LEVEL CAP. GFS AND NAM DIFFER ON HOW QUICKLY FNT SAGS S SAT NITE INTO SUN. GFS IS FASTER WITH FNT THRU CWA BY SUN MORN WHILE NAM KEEPS IT ACRS FAR SRN CWA INTO SUN AFTN. GFS HAS FLOW ALOFT MORE NWLY WITH S/W A LTL STRONGER SAT NITE. WHILE NAM MORE WLY. FOR NOW WL GO WITH SLIGHTLY SLOWER NAM SOLUTION. SO WL KEEP SMALL POPS ACRS NW IA INTO SUN AFTN. SHUD BE A LTL COOLER BEHIND THIS FNT SUN. LONGER RANGE LOOKS ANEMIC INTO NEXT WEAK...BUT ANY WEAK S/W IN THE NW FLOW CUD TRIGGER AND FEW TRW...BUT NOTHING WDSPRD OR HEAVY. EXPECT TEMPS TO BE CLOSE TO NORM THRU NEXT WEEK. && .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT. A FEW TRW CUD DEVELOP ALONG AN N OF I90 IN THE 20Z TO 02Z TIME. && .FSD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...NONE. MN...NONE. IA...NONE. NE...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 421 AM CDT FRI JUN 13 2008 SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098- IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-141200- AURORA-BEADLE-BON HOMME-BROOKINGS-BRULE-BUENA VISTA IA- CHARLES MIX-CHEROKEE IA-CLAY-CLAY IA-COTTONWOOD MN-DAKOTA NE- DAVISON-DICKINSON IA-DIXON NE-DOUGLAS-GREGORY-HANSON-HUTCHINSON- IDA IA-JACKSON MN-JERAULD-KINGSBURY-LAKE-LINCOLN-LINCOLN MN- LYON IA-LYON MN-MCCOOK-MINER-MINNEHAHA-MOODY-MURRAY MN-NOBLES MN- OBRIEN IA-OSCEOLA IA-PIPESTONE MN-PLYMOUTH IA-ROCK MN-SANBORN- SIOUX IA-TURNER-UNION-WOODBURY IA-YANKTON- 421 AM CDT FRI JUN 13 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS... SPOTTY THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING...MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 90. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 55 MPH. FLOODING... MINOR TO MODERATE FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG PORTIONS OF THE VERMILLION...JAMES...LITTLE SIOUX...AND LOWER BIG SIOUX RIVERS DURING THE NEXT FEW DAYS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY. THESE STORMS WILL NOT BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. && FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FSD. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rain caused minor flooding of farmland along the Floyd River.
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