Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Duluth, MN

Issued

Jun 24, 1997, 4:58 PM CDT (21:58 UTC)

Expired

Jun 24, 1997, 8:00 PM CDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Duluth, MN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Lake County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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TTAA00 KDLH 242202
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MNC075-137-250100-
 
BULLETIN-IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
458 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
SOUTHERN ST LOUIS COUNTY AND SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY...INCLUDING DULUTH AND
TWO HARBORS.
 
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WHICH FELL DURING THE DAY AND OVERNIGHT WAS CAUSING
SUBSTANTIAL FLOODING PROBLEMS IN SOME SECTIONS OF DULUTH. AT 5 PM...THE
DULUTH FIRE CHIEF REPORTED EXTENSIVE FLOODING IN THE LAKESIDE DIVISION
OF DULUTH...WITH WATER CLOSING SOME ROADS...AND LONDON ROAD NEARLY
IMPASSIBLE DUE TO FLOWING WATER. THE CULVERTS AND STREAMS WERE NOT ABLE
TO HANDLE THE DELUGE OF WATER. SOME SPOTS ON LONDON ROAD AND SUPERIOR
STREET HAD 2 TO 3 FEET OF WATER IN SOME PLACES.
 
SOME STREAMS WERE ALSO REPORTEDLY OVERFLOWING THEIR BANKS...INCLUDING
THE LESTER RIVER...AND ANOTHER STREAM LOCATED BETWEEN 45TH AND 47TH
AVENUE EAST NEAR PEABODY STREET.
 
OTHER FLOODING PROBLEMS WERE REPORTED ALONG THE SNIVELY BOULEVARD AND
JEAN DULUTH AREAS...AND THE SOUTHBOUND LANE OF HIGHWAY 53 ONE QUARTER
MILE NORTH OF STEBNER ROAD IN THE MILLER HILL AREA WAS CLOSED AS WELL.
 
THE RAIN WILL LET UP FOR A WHILE INTO THE EARLY EVENING...BUT DOPPLER
RADAR WAS SHOWING ANOTHER AREA OF RAINFALL DEVELOPING IN CENTRAL
MINNESOTA WHICH WILL MOVE EASTWARD DURING THE EVENING. THESE SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD INTO THE TWIN PORTS AND THE NORTH SHORE
BETWEEN 6 AND 7 PM.
 
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.  NEVERV TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT.  TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
DAP
 
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NWS Duluth, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 24, 2:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
243 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 1997

FORECAST PROBLEM TONIGHT IS DECREASING CONVECTION FROM WEST TO EAST

NOT MUCH TIME TO LOOK AT THINGS WITH A VARIETY OF THINGS GOING ON.
FIRST ISSUE IS THE DROPPING OF THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN THE NW PORTION
OF THE CWA AT THE 4PM ZONE ISSUANCE. MAJOR MOISTURE PLUME HAS BEGUN TO
SHIFT EASTWARD WITH THE DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE CENTER IN NORTHERN MN
SO THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING FOR THIS AREA IS SUBSIDING. COORD WITH MPX
ABOUT THIS. LINGERING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD WORK THEIR WAY
OUT OF NORTHEASTERN MN BY LATE EVENING.

LARGEST CONCERN IS IN NW WISCONSIN WHERE SIGNIFICANT HEATING...LOW LEVEL
JET AND LOW LEVEL SHEAR HAVE COME TOGETHER FOR TORNADO WATCH 514.
CAPES OF AROUND 3000 IN THIS AREA SHOULD ALLOW RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF
THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EVENING. THE TIMING OF THE BOX
SEEMS GOOD WITH GENERAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PE<RSISTING INTO THE
EARLY MORNING HOURS.

AS FOR OVERNIGHT LOWS...PREFER SOMEWHAT COOLER FAN GUIDANCE OVER
FWC VALUES FOR NE MINNESOTA. LOWS IN NW WISCONSIN SHOULD REMAIN IN
THE 60 TO 65 DEGREE RANGE.

BRAMER

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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.