Alert archive / Minnesota / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this flash flood warning at Apr 7, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT for 10 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 11 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
- Apr 7, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2001, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Benton County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Pope County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 464 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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 080010 FFWMSP MNC009-023-041-067-097-121-145-149-151-153-081200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 700 PM CDT SAT APR 7 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR... SWIFT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA BENTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA DOUGLAS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA WESTERN STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA STEVENS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA EXTREME NORTHWEST KANDIYOHI COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA POPE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA TODD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA MORRISON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 600 AM CDT * AT 700 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED WIDESPREAD FLOODING...DUE TO RUN OFF...OVER AGRICULTURAL LAND...ROADS...SMALL STREAMS...DITCHES AND LOW LYING AREAS. * HEAVY RAINS LAST NIGHT AND EARLY THIS MORNING...OVER SATURATED GROUNDS...RESULTED IN WIDESPREAD FLOODING FROM FOLEY WEST THROUGH LITTLE FALLS...SAUK CENTRE...BELGRADE...ALEXANDRIA...MORRIS AND BENSON. ALTHOUGH SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL HAS ENDED OVER THE AREA OF CONCERN... SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS WERE STILL ON THE RISE EARLY THIS EVENING ACROSS BENTON AND MORRISON COUNTIES. MANY SMALL STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS FROM ALEXANDRIA TO BENSON HAVE REACHED FLOOD CONDITIONS AND WATER CONDITIONS HAVE LEVELED OFF. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORT NUMEROUS ROADS STILL CLOSED. IN SOME INSTANCES...BARRICADES SET OUT EARLIER TODAY HAVE BEEN KNOCKED DOWN BY RISING FLOOD WATERS. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE AROUND BARRICADES OR CROSS ROADWAYS INUNDATED WITH RUNOFF. STANDING WATER MAY COVER WASHOUTS ESPECIALLY AROUND CULVERTS OR DRAINAGE DITCHES. AT NIGHT...THESE AREAS MAY BE ESPECIALLY HARD TO RECOGNIZE. LAT...LON 4604 9399 4567 9386 4503 9583 4587 9620
Nearby
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.