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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 14, 2002Beltrami County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 2002, 6:15 PM CDT for Beltrami 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 14, 2002, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Beltrami County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 188 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 149 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 12:00Z on 2002-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 18 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2002-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 151 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
18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1291 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KFGF 142315
FFWFAR
MNC007-150200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
613 PM CDT FRI JUN 14 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SOUTHERN BELTRAMI COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA.

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT.

* AT 610 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER THE SAME 
AREA...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. RADAR INDICATES UP 
TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE PAST HOUR...WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1 
TO 2 INCHES IN RED LAKE...ISLAND LAKE...TENSTRIKE...AND NEBISH.

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 4814 9534 4755 9465 4706 9408 4763 9472

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBeltrami61 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Minnesota, 2002Every 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.