Alert archive / Minnesota / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this flash flood warning at Sep 7, 1991, 7:55 PM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 1991, 7:55 PM CDT (00:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1991, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carver County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Renville County, MN, Sibley County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 58 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1227 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMSP 080051 FFWMSP MNC085-129-143-019-080400- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 755 PM CDT SAT SEP 7 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MINNEAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...MCLEOD COUNTY...EASTERN RENVILLE COUNTY...SIBLEY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...CARVER COUNTY AT 730 PM...WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAINS HAVE FALLEN ACROSS SECTIONS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE REPEATEDLY MOVED ACROSS THE SAME AREA...DUMPING TORRENTIAL RAINS. THE CITY OF HECTOR...ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF REDWOOD FALLS... HAS ALREADY PICKED UP 7 INCHES OF RAIN. CITY POLICE REPORT STREETS AND BASEMENTS FLOODING. EVEN SOME FIRST FLOOR APARTMENTS HAVE STANDING WATER. THE SAME THUNDERSTORMS HAD TRACKED EASTWARD...AND WERE JUST ENTERING THE SOUTHWESTERN SUBURBS OF MINNEAPOLIS. PEOPLE AROUND CHASKA AND NORWOOD CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAINS THROUGH 11 PM. TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE...MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. THESE WILL BE TRACKING ACROSS THE SAME AREA...SO IT IT POSSIBLE THAT THE CITY OF HECTOR COULD WIND UP WITH 2 OR 3 MORE INCHES OF RAIN. SOME OF THE CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE GLENCOE...GAYLORD... HUTCHINSON...CHASKA...WACONIA...FAIRFAX...AND HECTOR. ONE MATTER OF CONCERN IS THAT NIGHT HAS FALLEN...AND PEOPLE WHO ARE DRIVING SHOULD SLOW DOWN AND WATCH CLOSELY FOR WATER OVER THE ROAD. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH WATER...IT COULD CARRY YOUR CAR AWAY. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER...MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. TDK/JPR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 2 hr |
| Sep 7, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 67 min |
| Sep 7, 11:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Meeker | 64 min |
| Sep 7, 11:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Stearns | 2 hr |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.