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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this flash flood warning at May 31, 2000, 11:30 PM CDT for Mower 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 2000, 11:30 PM CDT (04:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2000, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Mower County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KARX 010429 FFWARX MNC099-010900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 1130 PM CDT WED MAY 31 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MOWER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 400 AM CDT * AT 1130 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL OF BETWEEN TWO AND THREE INCHES ACROSS THE COUNTY. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER THE COUNTY FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. 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 AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. NELSON LAT...LON 4383 9305 4353 9303 4352 9245 4383 9245
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 |
| Jun 1, 1:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Fillmore | 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 |
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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.