Alert archive / Minnesota / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this flash flood warning at Sep 15, 1992, 10:11 PM CDT for Dakota County, Hennepin County, Scott County, Minnesota. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 15, 1992, 10:11 PM CDT (03:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 1992, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dakota County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Scott County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 21 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
- 1883 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 717 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 456 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.8
- Supercell composite
- 8.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMSP 160312 FFWMSP MNC037-053-139-WIC033-091-093-160700- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 1011 PM CDT TUE SEP 15 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MINNEAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 2 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...DAKOTA COUNTY...SOUTHERN HENNEPIN COUNTY...SCOTT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...SOUTHERN DUNN COUNTY...PEPIN COUNTY...PIERCE COUNTY A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINS HAVE BEEN PERSISTING ACROSS THE WARNIED COUNTIES FOR MOST OF THE EVENING. AT 1005 PM...THE 25 MILE WIDE LINE OF STORMS WAS LOCATED FROM YOUNG AMERICA TO CHASKA...EAST TO BELLE PLAINE...PRIOR LAKE... FARMINGTON AND HASTINGS...INTO WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN FROM ELLSWORTH TO DURAND AND MENOMONIE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH. AT 10 PM...SCOTT COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE REPORTED 5.22 INCHES OF RAIN HAS OCCURRED THUS FAR IN THE BELLE PLAINE AREA OF WESTERN SCOTT COUNTY. ALSO...REPORTS OF STREET FLOODING IN PARTS OF DAKOTA COUNTY AND NEAR PRIOR LAKE...IN THE VICINITY OF THE MYSTIC LAKE CASINO. THE STORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVY RAINS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE IN THE WARNED AREA THROUGH AT LEAST 2 AM WEDNESDAY MORNING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY EXCEED 6 INCHES IN SOME AREAS. 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. DWE/MBM/CARLYON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 38 min |
| Sep 15, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 29 min |
| Sep 16, 2:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Scott | 116 min |
| Sep 16, 3:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 38 min |
| Sep 16, 3:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Olmsted | 43 min |
| Sep 16, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs | 18 min |
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.