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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this flash flood warning at Sep 11, 2000, 12:40 AM CDT for Chippewa County, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 11, 2000, 12:40 AM CDT (05:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2000, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chippewa County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 2354 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 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 KMPX 110546 FFWMPX WIC017-035-110800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1240 AM CDT MON SEP 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 300 AM CDT * AT 1240 AM...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED ROADS WASHED OUT AND MUD SLIDES OVER THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF EAU CLAIRE CITY. FLOODING ALSO COLLAPSED TWO BASEMENTS IN NORTHERN EAU CLAIRE. * WEATHER RADAR CONTINUES TO SNOW SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL OVER CHIPPEWA AND EAU CLAIRE COUNTIES. ABSOLUTELY DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Saint Croix | 46 min |
| Sep 10, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 42 min |
| Sep 10, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 41 min |
| Sep 10, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pierce, Saint Croix | 53 min |
| Sep 10, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire | 62 min |
| Sep 10, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 32 min |
| Sep 10, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 48 min |
| Sep 11, 1:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pierce | 81 min |
| Sep 11, 2:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pierce | 2 hr |
| Sep 11, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pierce, Saint Croix | 47 min |
| Sep 11, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dunn | 36 min |
| Sep 11, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Eau Claire | 49 min |
| Sep 11, 3:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dunn | 19 min |
| Sep 11, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rusk | 42 min |
| Sep 11, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dunn | 14 min |
| Sep 11, 4:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Eau Claire | 49 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.