Two disturbances sliding across the Northern Plains resulted in fairly widespread moderate rainfall from October 9-11. 00 inches throughout the basin on saturated soils.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS FSD wrote it up.
Two disturbances sliding across the Northern Plains resulted in fairly widespread moderate rainfall from October 9-11. Another episode of minor to moderate flooding ensued with rain totaling from 1.50 to 2.00 inches throughout the basin on saturated soils.
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 Oct 10, 5:18 PM CST, 42 minutes earlier.
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</html>Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Sioux Falls SD 514 AM CDT Wed Oct 10 2018 IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-MNZ080-081-089-090-097-098-NEZ013- 014-SDZ056-060>062-065>071-111015- Lyon IA-Osceola-Dickinson-Sioux-O'Brien-Clay IA-Plymouth-Cherokee- Buena Vista-Woodbury-Ida-Murray-Cottonwood-Nobles-Jackson-Pipestone- Rock-Dixon-Dakota-Moody-Hanson-McCook-Minnehaha-Hutchinson-Turner- Lincoln SD-Bon Homme-Yankton-Clay SD-Union- 514 AM CDT Wed Oct 10 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northwest Iowa, west central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, northeast Nebraska, east central South Dakota and southeast South Dakota. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Temperatures may fall to around freezing late tonight. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Overnight lows may again fall below freezing along and north of I-90 Thursday night and across the entire area on Saturday and Sunday night. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. MNZ071-072-SDZ039-040-053>055-058-059-063-064-111015- Lincoln MN-Lyon MN-Kingsbury-Brookings-Sanborn-Miner-Lake-Aurora- Davison-Charles Mix-Douglas- 514 AM CDT Wed Oct 10 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for southwest Minnesota, east central South Dakota, south central South Dakota and southeast South Dakota. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Rain may mix with or change to snow later today. Any snowfall accumulations are expected to be less than an inch. Temperatures may fall to below freezing late tonight. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Overnight lows may again fall below freezing along and north of I-90 Thursday night and across the entire area on Saturday and Sunday night. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. SDZ050-057-111015- Gregory-Brule- 514 AM CDT Wed Oct 10 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for south central South Dakota. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Light snow is expected to continue this morning before ending by early this afternoon. Additional accumulations of up to 2 inches are expected with the highest snowfall amounts at higher elevations away from the Missouri River. Temperatures may fall to below freezing late tonight. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. There will be another chance of snow or a mix of rain and snow on Thursday night. Little accumulation is expected. Overnight lows are expected to fall below freezing Saturday and Sunday night. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. SDZ038-052-111015- Beadle-Jerauld- 514 AM CDT Wed Oct 10 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central South Dakota and east central South Dakota. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Snow will continue into mid afternoon across the area with up to 3 inches of snow expected. The heaviest snowfall will be at higher elevations west of the James River. Temperatures may fall to below freezing late tonight. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Overnight lows may again fall below freezing along and north of I-90 Thursday night and across the entire area on Saturday and Sunday night. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. Schumacher
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Significant amounts of crop and pasture land near the Rock River were impacted by minor flooding as river levels crested at 0.5 feet above flood stage near Rock Rapids (gage site RAPI4) on October 11.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Iowa in 2018Every state in 2018This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, October 2018
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 786706.