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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 22, 2002Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 2002, 12:58 PM CDT for Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota. It was in force for 8 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 22, 2002, 12:58 PM CDT (17:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lake of the Woods County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 120 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 2002-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2002-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 96 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
962 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KFGF 221758
FFWFAR
MNC077-230200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
1255 PM CDT SAT JUN 22 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  LAKE OF THE WOODS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA.

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT.

* AT 1254 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS LAKE OF THE 
WOODS COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* FAUNCE...PITT...WILLIAMS AND GRACETON AND BAUDETTE WILL BE 
AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES CAN BE 
EXPECTED. THIS WILL RESULT IN PONDING OF WATER AND FLOODED ROADWAYS.

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 4859 9511 4846 9491 4855 9463 4904 9490


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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 8:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFKittson, Marshall50 min
Jun 22, 11:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFNorman39 min
Jun 22, 2:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFClearwater6 hr
Jun 22, 2:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFClearwater6 hr
Jun 22, 3:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBeltrami, Clearwater44 min
Jun 22, 3:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFHubbard34 min
Jun 22, 3:18 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFHubbard27 min

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.