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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Grand Forks, ND

July 18, 2001Lake of the Woods County, Roseau County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jul 18, 2001, 8:09 PM CDT for Lake of the Woods County, Roseau County, Minnesota. 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Jul 18, 2001, 8:09 PM CDT (01:09 UTC)
Expired
Jul 18, 2001, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Lake of the Woods County, MN, Roseau County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 182 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:09 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 187 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, International Fa, MN at 00:00Z on 2001-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2275 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, International Fa, MN at 00:00Z on 2001-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 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
2275 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1506 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
202 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
9.1

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KFGF 190115
FFWFAR

MNC077-135-190315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS
809 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  LAKE OF THE WOODS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND
  ROSEAU COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA.

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 804 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE TO MOVE...MOVEMENT WAS TO
  THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* ROSEAU...GREENBUSH...WARROAD...LEO...BAUDETTE AND ROOSEVELT WILL 
  BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES 
  IN ONE HOUR ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS AS INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS 
  MOVE ACROSS ROSEAU AND LAKE OF THE WOODS COUNTIES. THIS EXCESSIVE 
  RAIN COMES ON THE HEELS OF EARLIER HEAVY RAINS IN THESE AREAS 
  EARLIER TODAY. RESIDENTS ALONG THE ROSEAU RIVER...HAY CREEK AND 
  THE WARROAD RIVER AND THEIR TRIBUTARIES SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY 
  RISING WATER.

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 4898 9641 4858 9639 4857 9473 4900 9514


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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 7:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFKittson41 min
Jul 18, 7:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFKittson3 hr
Jul 18, 7:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFLake of the Woods52 min
Jul 18, 7:36 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFLake of the Woods39 min
Jul 18, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFKittson45 min
Jul 18, 7:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFRoseau66 min
Jul 18, 8:44 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFMarshall46 min
Jul 18, 8:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBeltrami, Lake of the Woods55 min
Jul 18, 9:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFRoseau29 min
Jul 18, 9:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFLake of the Woods47 min
Jul 18, 9:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFPolk39 min
Jul 18, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBeltrami45 min
Jul 18, 10:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFLake of the Woods, Roseau3 hr
Jul 18, 10:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFPolk28 min
Jul 18, 10:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFMarshall38 min
Jul 18, 11:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBeltrami41 min
Jul 18, 11:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFPennington49 min
Jul 18, 11:18 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFPennington, Red Lake27 min
Jul 18, 11:42 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFRed Lake33 min
Jul 19, 12:14 AM CDTTornado WarningFGFPolk31 min
Jul 19, 12:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFMarshall, Polk2 hr
Jul 19, 12:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFNorman66 min
Jul 19, 1:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFPolk66 min
Jul 19, 1:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFClay47 min
Jul 19, 1:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFMarshall46 min
Jul 19, 2:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFMahnomen, Norman40 min
Jul 19, 2:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFClay30 min
Jul 19, 2:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBecker47 min
Jul 19, 2:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBeltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard38 min
Jul 19, 3:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBecker63 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.