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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 2002, 6:36 PM CDT for Yellow Medicine 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2002, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2002, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 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 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1222 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 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 032336 FFWMSP MNC173-040230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 636 PM CDT SAT AUG 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 636 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA. * SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA. ABSOLUTELY DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. WET
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka | 50 min |
| Aug 3, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago, Washington | 51 min |
| Aug 3, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 39 min |
| Aug 3, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle | 51 min |
| Aug 3, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne, Wright | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 5:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chisago | 37 min |
| Aug 3, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Swift | 58 min |
| Aug 3, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 50 min |
| Aug 3, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 51 min |
| Aug 3, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka | 36 min |
| Aug 3, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott, Sibley | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 48 min |
| Aug 3, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Ramsey, Washington | 43 min |
| Aug 3, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 58 min |
| Aug 3, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 41 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.