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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this flash flood warning at May 17, 1996, 8:51 PM CDT for Marshall County, Minnesota; Walsh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 1996, 8:51 PM CDT (01:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1996, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Marshall County, MN, Walsh County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 277 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
- 1052 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 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 KFAR 180153 FFWFAR MNC089-NDC099-180500- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA ND 851 PM CDT FRI MAY 17 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA ...MARSHALL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA ...WALSH COUNTY VERY HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO THE WARNING AREA. LAST NIGHT THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED FLOODING CONDITIONS TO MANY AREAS. THUNDERSTORM NOW MOVING INTO THE AREA WILL ONLY MAKE CONDITIONS WORSE. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE WITH THUNDERSTORMS OVER A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. ACT NOW IN ORDER TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. SMALL STREAMS WILL RISE RAPIDLY AND PONDING A WATER IS LIKELY. DO NOT CROSS A FLOODED ROADWAY IT MAY HIDE A WASHOUT. MOST FLOOD FATALITIES OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES...DO NOT BE FOOLED BY WATER OVER A ROADWAY IT ONLY TAKES 2 FEET TO MAKE YOUR CAR BUOYANT. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAfFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. BELLES
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 17, 3:22 PM CDT, 5 hours 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...DELAYED REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA
320 PM CDT FRI MAY 17 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1102 PM LAWTON ND .75 INCH HAIL WIND DAMAGE
05/16/96 RAMSEY LIFT STATION KNOCKED OUT
2-4 INCH DIAMETER TREES DOWNSpecial weather statement, May 17, 3:49 PM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
NDZ007-008-015-016-027-MNZ004-005-006-007-008-009-001-013-015-172345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA ND 346 PM CDT FRI MAY 17 1996 ...HEAVY RAINFALL IN THUNDERSTORMS IS AGAIN POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA TONIGHT... HEAVY RAINFALL LAST NIGHT OVER ALREADY SATURATED GROUND HAS CAUSED FLOODING PROBLEMS NORTH OF A DEVILS LAKE...MANVEL...THIEF RIVER FALLS... BAUDETTE LINE. THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS EVENING ACROSS THE AREA...SOME OF WHICH COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN. LOCALIZED RAINFALL IN THE 1 OR 2 INCH CATEGORY COULD FALL WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS IN A SHORT TIME PERIOD....THIS WOULD RESULT IN ADDITIONAL FLOODING PROBLEMS. THOSE IN NORTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA WHO LIVE NORTH OF A LINE FROM DEVILS LAKE TO MANVEL TO THIEF RIVER FALL TO BAUDETTE SHOULD LISTEN TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR LAT(ER STATEME SAND BE PREPARED IN CASE HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS OCCUR. BELLES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grant | 38 min |
| May 17, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 46 min |
| May 17, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Wilkin | 53 min |
| May 17, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay | 41 min |
| May 17, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 25 min |
| May 17, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater, Mahnomen | 30 min |
| May 17, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 24 min |
| May 17, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 33 min |
| May 17, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater, Mahnomen | 32 min |
| May 17, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 32 min |
| May 17, 7:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Cass, Steele, Traill | 3 hr |
| May 17, 7:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Minnesota, 1996Flash Flood Warnings in North Dakota, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.