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Current River Conditions - Flood Category Map of Highest Forecast River Stage

The map above updates at :20 and :50 past the hour. Click on the map to obtain detailed river forecast information.

LMRFC River Flood Summary - Updated Updated 05/15/2008 12:00AM Central Daylight Time
Number in Flood				Number in Flood and Forecasted to Reach Flood
Minor 11	Moderate 0	Major 0	Total 11	Minor 15	Moderate 1	Major 0	Total 16
Total Number of Forecast Points: 222
Percentage(%) In Flood: 5.0				Percentage(%) In Flood and Forecasted in Flood: 7.2

Current Precipitation Estimates
Multi-Sensor Precipitation Estimates (MPE)

Future Precipitation
Quantitative Precipitation Forecast (QPF)

00Z QPF Images Issued at Wed May 14, 2008 at 07:15 PM In the table below are links to the latest QPF graphics for the 00Z 24 hour creation time.

12 hour QPF is utilized for river forecasts Latest 00Z 12 hour QPF starting May 15 at 00Z	Latest 00Z 24 hour QPF starting May 15 at 00Z

Latest 00Z 48 hour QPF starting May 15 at 00Z	Latest 00Z 72 hour QPF starting May 15 at 00Z

1st 6 hour period from 00Z (May 15 00Z-06Z)	2nd 6 hour period from 00Z (May 15 06Z-12Z)
3rd 6 hour period from 00Z (May 15 12Z-18Z)	4th 6 hour period from 00Z (May 15 18Z-00Z)

Past Precipitation Conditions

Twenty-Four Hour Precipitation ending at 12Z

MPE Data

Gage Only Data

Mean Areal Precip Data

Mean Areal Precipitation Data for Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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	- Thursday, May 08, 2008

2, 3, 5, 7 Day Precipitation Totals for Wed, May 14 2008 at 12z (6am CST/7am CDT)...

2 Day Total	3 Day Total	5 Day Total	7 Day Total
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Flood Potential Map

The LMRFC issues 72 hours of quantitative precipitation forecasts (QPF) throughout the year. For our routine river forecasts, only 12 hours of QPF is normally used. Under certain conditions and based on specific requests by our users, we will utilize 24 hours of QPF in them. A full 72 hours of QPF is used as input to our river models to produce local Significant River Flood Outlooks and National Significant River Flood Outlooks. Therefore, the daily Significant River Flood Outlook does not account for a full 5 days of QPF covering the LMRFC river forecast area. 5-Day QPF for the United States can be found at http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/day1-5.shtml.