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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 2002, 7:26 PM CDT for Carver County, Dakota County, Scott County, Minnesota. It was in force for 4 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
- Aug 3, 2002, 7:26 PM CDT (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2002, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Carver County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Scott County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:29 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 20 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
- 777 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 509 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KMPX 040026 FFWMSP MNC019-037-139-040430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 723 PM CDT SAT AUG 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CARVER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA DAKOTA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA SCOTT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1130 PM CDT * AT 723 PM CDT... THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. MORE THUNDERSTORMS WERE UPSTREAM OVER THE REDWOOD FALLS...GLENCOE...OLIVIA AREAS MOVING TO THE EAST. RADAR ESTIMATES OF 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED SINCE LATE AFTERNOON OVER THE WARNED COUNTIES. ROSEMOUNT OFFICIALS REPORTED 6 INCHES OF RUNNING WATER ON HIGHWAY 3 AND 43. * THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUOUSLY REDEVELOPING OVER THE WARNED AREA... RESULTING IN EXCESSIVE RAINFALL. 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. LAT...LON 4479 9376 4461 9370 4461 9288 4476 9305
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice, Scott | 36 min |
| Aug 3, 7:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Sibley | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet, Sibley, Watonwan | 52 min |
| Aug 3, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Scott | 42 min |
| Aug 3, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Rice, Steele, Waseca | 55 min |
| Aug 3, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 40 min |
| Aug 3, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 39 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.