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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 13, 2000Clay County, Dickinson County, Iowa; Jackson County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2000, 4:01 PM CDT for Clay County, Dickinson County, Iowa; Jackson County, Minnesota. It was in force for 119 min. 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 13, 2000, 4:01 PM CDT (21:01 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
119 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

Counties Clay County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Jackson County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 250 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2000-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 997 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2000-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 108 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
997 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-254 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1473 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KFSD 132102
FFWFSD
IAC041-059-MNC063-132300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
401 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA
  DICKINSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA
  CLAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 401 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE WARNED
  AREA.

RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH THE 
REST OF THE AFTERNOON AS WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH THE 
AREA. TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF LOCALLY 3 TO 4 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER
LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 2:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDSioux28 min
Jun 13, 2:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDSioux28 min
Jun 13, 2:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDWoodbury25 min
Jun 13, 3:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay23 min
Jun 13, 3:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDCherokee, O'Brien, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury2 hr
Jun 13, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCherokee, O'Brien35 min
Jun 13, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay29 min
Jun 13, 4:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBuena Vista27 min
Jun 13, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay26 min
Jun 13, 2:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDNobles23 min
Jun 13, 2:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMurray30 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Iowa, 2000Flash Flood Warnings in Minnesota, 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.