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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 11, 2001Otter Tail County, Wilkin County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 2001, 12:02 PM CDT for Otter Tail County, Wilkin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 6 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 11, 2001, 12:02 PM CDT (17:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Whole counties

Counties Otter Tail County, MN, Wilkin County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:02 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 244 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2628 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -211 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1168 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 432 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 444 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KFGF 111702
FFWFAR
MNC111-167-112255-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
1202 PM CDT MON JUN 11 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  OTTER TAIL COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  NORTHERN WILKIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING EXTENDED UNTIL 6 PM FOR OTTER TAIL AND
  WILKIN COUNTIES...

* ADDITIONAL INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL
  OVER WILKIN AND OTTER TAIL COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON. A FLASH FLOOD
  WARNING HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 6 PM FOR THIS AREA.

  AT 1150 PM THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING THE TORRENTIAL RAIN WERE
  MOVING INTO NORTHERN WILKIN COUNTY AND WILL BE MOVING INTO
  OTTER TAIL COUNTY BY 1215 PM. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN
  EXCESS OF ONE AND ONE HALF INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED.

  THE HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LIKELY AFFECT THE ROTHSAY...PELICAN
  RAPIDS...ELIZABETH...DENT AND FERGUS FALLS AREAS THROUGH 1 PM .
  THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL LIKELY RUNOFF QUICKLY ADDING FURTHER
  PROBLEMS TO ANY AREAS FLOODED EARLIER THIS MORNING.

IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...MOVE QUICKLY TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.
DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
REPORT ANY FLOODING TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS.
$$
KENNEDY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 5:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Marshall	27 min
Jun 11, 9:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Wilkin	24 min
Jun 11, 9:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Otter Tail, Wilkin	57 min
Jun 11, 10:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGF	Otter Tail, Wilkin	30 min
Jun 11, 10:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGF	Otter Tail, Wilkin	105 min
Jun 11, 10:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Otter Tail	46 min
Jun 11, 11:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Clay	29 min
Jun 11, 11:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Otter Tail	29 min
Jun 11, 11:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Clay	31 min
Jun 11, 11:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Wilkin	51 min
Jun 11, 11:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Becker	53 min
Jun 11, 11:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Clay	46 min
Jun 11, 12:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Otter Tail	62 min
Jun 11, 12:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Becker, Hubbard	58 min
Jun 11, 1:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Otter Tail	60 min
Jun 11, 1:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Otter Tail, Wadena	23 min
Jun 11, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Otter Tail	15 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Minnesota, 2001 Every 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.