Alert archive / Minnesota / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this flash flood warning at Sep 16, 1992, 2:04 AM CDT for Dakota County, Hennepin County, Scott County, Minnesota. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 16, 1992, 2:04 AM CDT (07:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 1992, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 116 min
- 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, 7.1 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 160704 FFWMSP MNC037-053-139-WIC033-091-093-160900- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 204 AM CDT WED SEP 16 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MINNEAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 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 THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINS CONTINUE ACROSS PARTS OF SCOTT...SOUTHERN HENNEPIN AND DAKOTA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...AND FURTHER EAST INTO WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN INTO PIERCE...PEPIN AND SOUTHERN DUNN COUNTY. THROUGH 1 AM THIS MORNING ...RAINFALL HAS RANGED FROM 3 TO AS MUCH AS 8 INCHES ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. SIGNIFICANT FLOODING OF ROADWAY UNDERPASSES HAS OCCURRED IN SOUTHERN HENNEPIN AND DAKOTA COUNTY. ROADS AND SOME BRIDGES IN PIERCE COUNTY WERE WERE REPORTED TO BE WASHED OUT AND SMALL STREAMS ACROSS THE AREA WERE ON THE RISE. THE RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO FALL OVER THE SAME GENERAL AREA THROUGH AT LEAST 4 AM WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ANOTHER INCH OR TWO POSSIBLE. THIS IS A POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION AND SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN LIGHTLY. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED YOU SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. 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. DWE
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 15, 10:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Scott | 4 hr |
| 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 |
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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.