Fire Weather Concerns for the Plains; Record Warmth Spreads

Dry and breezy conditions prevail across the High Plains where elevated to locally critical conditions continue through Thursday. Meanwhile, record warmth increases and spreads across the South, Southwest and into southern California into this last weekend of February. Meanwhile, a fast moving system moves across the Plains then off the mid-Atlantic by Thursday evening. Read More >

The National Weather Service completed a service assessment for flooding along the Missouri and Souris Rivers that occurred from May through August 2011. The final report of this assessment may be read at:

http://www.weather.gov/media/publications/assessments/Missouri_floods11.pdf

Service assessments are internal reviews of the National Weather Service’s performance during certain Hydrometeorological, oceanographic, and geological events. They identify best practices and areas for product and service improvements in the form of findings and recommendations.

Additional information regarding this and other floods across South Dakota from 1881 to 2019 can be found here, courtesy of the U.S. Corps of Engineers (alternatively here, via the South Dakota State Historical Society).

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Fire Weather Concerns for the Plains; Record Warmth Spreads

NWS Completes Internal Assessment for 2011 Missouri River Flooding