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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS La Crosse, WI

June 1, 2000Fillmore County, Minnesota

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2000, 1:15 AM CDT for Fillmore County, Minnesota. It was in force for 5 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: Jun 1, 2000, 1:15 AM CDT (06:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2000, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI
Area: Whole counties

County Fillmore County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 178 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1826 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KARX 010620
FFWARX
MNC045-011100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
115 AM CDT THU JUN 1 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  FILLMORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 600 AM CDT

* AT 115 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THAT BETWEEN 2 AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN ACROSS
  SOUTHWESTERN FILLMORE COUNTY WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING.
  THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT COUPLE
  OF HOURS...AND MAY LAST UNTIL NEAR SUNRISE.

AREA STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY SEE RAPID RISES EARLY THIS MORNING.  IF
YOU LIVE NEAR ANY WATERWAYS REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE FLOODING.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AHREAS SUBJECT TO
FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

NELSON

The office that day

Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Mower	53 min
May 31, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Fillmore	57 min
May 31, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Houston	55 min
May 31, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Olmsted, Winona	67 min
May 31, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Mower	59 min
May 31, 11:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	Mower	5 hr
Jun 1, 3:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	Mower	2 hr
Jun 1, 4:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	Houston	95 min
Jun 1, 6:02 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	Fillmore, Houston, Mower	4 hr
Jun 1, 10:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	Fillmore, Houston, Mower	6 hr
Jun 1, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Winona	60 min
Jun 1, 2:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Fillmore	58 min
Jun 1, 2:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	Winona	3 hr
Jun 1, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Houston	63 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.