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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 19, 2000Steele County, Traill County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 2000, 7:54 PM CDT for Steele County, Traill 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
Jun 19, 2000, 7:54 PM CDT (00:54 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties

Counties Steele County, ND, Traill County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 258 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2000-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1069 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2000-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 149 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1069 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
833 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
221 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
4.1

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KFGF 200054
FFWFGF
NDC091-097-200400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
754 PM CDT MON JUN 19 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  STEELE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA
  TRAILL COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* ...AT 750 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS HAVE
  MOVED THROUGH STEELE AND TRAILL COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL NORTH
  DAKOTA. RAINFALL AMOUNTS FROM 1 TO 3 INCHES HAVE FALLEN OVER
  ALREADY RAIN SOAKED AREAS. THE TRAILL COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED
  FIELDS UNDERWATER IN THE MAYVILLE/PORTLAND AREA.

  ADDITIONAL RISES ARE POSSIBLE ALONG THE GOOSE RIVER WHICH IS
  RUNNING AT FLOOD STAGE OR ABOVE AS WELL AS SMALLER STREAMS.


BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING
ARE HARD TO RECOGNIZE.

VOELKER


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The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 7:17 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFCass28 min
Jun 19, 7:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFCass3 hr
Jun 19, 10:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFRansom, Richland4 hr
Jun 19, 10:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFCass29 min
Jun 19, 10:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFCass, Traill5 hr
Jun 20, 1:28 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFGrand Forks3 hr
Jun 20, 1:59 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFRansom, Richland2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Dakota, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.