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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 13, 2001Wadena County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2001, 7:25 PM CDT for Wadena 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 13, 2001, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2001, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Wadena County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 206 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:29 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 220 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 KFGF 140029
FFWFGF
MNC159-140430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS
725 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WADENA COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT

* AT 724 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE TO MOVE...MOVEMENT WAS TO
  THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* BLUE GRASS...SEBEKA...NIMROD...HUNTERSVILLE...AND HUNTERSVILLE WILL
  BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES
OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA AS THUNDERSTORMS WITH
TRAINING ECHOES WILL CONTINUE PRODUCE RAIN OVER AREAS OVER ALREADY
SATURATED GROUND.

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

LAT...LON 4660 9512 4638 9506 4649 9481 4679 9488


$$

DONAVON

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 7:09 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFWadena51 min

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.