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 12, 4:57 PM CST, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.
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</html>Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Sioux Falls SD 341 AM CDT Fri Oct 12 2018 IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-032-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098- SDZ038>040-052>056-059>062-066-067-130845- Lyon IA-Osceola-Dickinson-Sioux-O'Brien-Clay IA-Plymouth-Cherokee- Buena Vista-Ida-Lincoln MN-Lyon MN-Murray-Cottonwood-Nobles- Jackson-Pipestone-Rock-Beadle-Kingsbury-Brookings-Jerauld-Sanborn- Miner-Lake-Moody-Davison-Hanson-McCook-Minnehaha-Turner- Lincoln SD- 341 AM CDT Fri Oct 12 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of northwest Iowa, west central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, central South Dakota, east central South Dakota, and southeast South Dakota. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed. IAZ031-NEZ013-014-SDZ050-057-058-063>065-068>071-130845- Woodbury-Dixon-Dakota-Gregory-Brule-Aurora-Charles Mix-Douglas- Hutchinson-Bon Homme-Yankton-Clay SD-Union- 341 AM CDT Fri Oct 12 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of west central Iowa, northeast Nebraska, south central South Dakota, and southeast South Dakota. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Areas of light rain and snow will develop early this morning, changing to all rain by midday. Any snow accumulation will be less than a half inch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Low-lying crop and pasture land was inundated as levels on the Des Moines River near Avoca (gage site AVOM5) crested 0.5 feet above flood stage on October 13.
Low-lying crop and pasture land was inundated as levels on the Des Moines River near Avoca (gage site AVOM5) crested 0.5 feet above flood stage on October 13.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Minnesota in 2018Every state in 2018This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, 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: 786732, 786733.