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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 2000, 12:16 AM CDT for Norman County, Minnesota. It was in force for 4 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, 12:16 AM CDT (05:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2000, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Norman County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:17 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 277 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 200522 FFWFGF MNC107-200900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 1216 AM CDT TUE JUN 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 400 AM CDT * AT 1212 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER NORMAN COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * ADA...AND TWIN VALLEY WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES IN THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. EXPECT LOCAL SIGNIFICANT RISES ON THE MARSH AND WILD RICE RIVERS. PERSONS LIVING NEAR THESE RIVERS NEED TO MONITOR CURRENT SITUATIONS. MOST 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 4721 9675 4717 9642 4733 9615 4749 9638 NNNN
The 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, 1:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Polk | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 1:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Mahnomen, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake | 2 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.