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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 9, 2002Beltrami County, Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 2002, 9:34 PM CDT for Beltrami County, Lake of the Woods 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 2002, 9:34 PM CDT (02:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2002, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

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

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 217 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:34 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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 543 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 283 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 475 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KFGF 100234
FFWFAR
MNC007-077-100600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
929 PM CDT SUN JUN 9 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  EXTREME NORTHERN BELTRAMI COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA 
  AND LAKE OF THE WOODS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA.

* UNTIL 100 AM CDT MONDAY.

* AT 924 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED       
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY ACROSS THE 
  FAUNCE...CARP...CLEMENTSON AND RED LAKE WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT 
  AREA.MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* BAUDETTE...THORHULT...OAKS CORNER...MALCOLM AND JELLE WILL BE 
  AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES HAVE 
  BEEN INDICATED IN THE FAUNCE AND GATES CORNER AREAS BY DOPPLER 
  RADAR. FLOODING IS EXPECTED ALONG THE BAUDETTE RIVER AND WINTER 
  ROAD RIVER.

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 4920 9471 4939 9505 4870 9508 4870 9527
          4852 9528 4851 9558 4820 9560 4818 9445
          4872 9449


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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Lake of the Woods	41 min
Jun 10, 7:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGF	Lake of the Woods, Roseau	6 hr
Jun 10, 8:09 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGF	Lake of the Woods, Roseau	6 hr
Jun 10, 12:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson	44 min
Jun 10, 1:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGF	Kittson	4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Minnesota, 2002 Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.