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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 2000, 1:44 AM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 2 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
- Jun 20, 2000, 1:44 AM CDT (06:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2000, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Mahnomen County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:47 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 1558 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KFGF 200649
FFWFGF
MNC087-113-119-125-200900-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS
144 AM CDT TUE JUN 20 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
RED LAKE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
MAHNOMEN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
EASTERN POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
PENNINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 400 AM CDT
* AT 142 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE TO MOVE ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF OKLEE TO 3 MILES WEST OF
FOSSTON TO 5 MILES EAST OF WAUBUN OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 25
MILES SOUTHEAST OF THIEF RIVER FALLS TO 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THIEF
RIVER FALLS TO 24 MILES NORTH OF DETROIT LAKES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
MPH.
* MCCINTOSH...OKLEE...MAHNOMEN...MCINTOSH...AND GULLY WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3
INCHES OF RAIN THROUGH 4 AM CAN BE EXPECTED. THIS WILL CAUSE
SIGNIFICANT LOCAL RISES ON THE CLEARWATER AND RED LAKE RIVER
UPSTREAM OF THE CITY OF RED LAKE FALLS.
FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE
INTO WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. ONE OR TWO FEET OF WATER WILL FLOAT
MOST CARS DOWNSTREAM.
LAT...LON 4812 9601 4739 9606 4717 9604 4717 9586
4723 9559 4812 9561
NNNN
qThe office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Clay | 29 min |
| Jun 19, 7:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Clay | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 8:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Clay | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay | 29 min |
| Jun 19, 10:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Clay | 5 hr |
| Jun 20, 12:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Norman | 4 hr |
| Jun 20, 1:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Polk | 3 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.