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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS La Crosse, WI

June 14, 2001Dodge County, Minnesota

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 2001, 12:58 AM CDT for Dodge County, Minnesota. 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 14, 2001, 12:58 AM CDT (05:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2001, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS La Crosse, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Dodge County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:58 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 109 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2001-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4556 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2001-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
4556 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
989 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
3.1
Supercell composite
20.8

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KARX 140559
FFWARX
MNC039-140900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
1258 AM CDT THU JUN 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  DODGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 400 AM CDT

* AT 1258 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF THE WARNED
  AREA. RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR IS LIKELY WITH THE
  STORMS.

* SOME LOCATIONS WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  WEST CONCORD...
  MANTORVILLE...
  KASSON...
  HAYFIELD...
  DODGE CENTER...

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IMMINENT.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FORGE
FLOODED ROuADWAYS BY FOOT OR AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS...
ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND.

$$

RABERDING

LAT...LON 4418 9271 4387 9272 4388 9272 4388 9303
          4419 9303

The office that day

Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 6:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningARXDodge, Mower4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Minnesota, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.