Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Twin Cities, MN

Issued

Jun 18, 2002, 1:00 AM CDT (06:00 UTC)

Expired

Jun 18, 2002, 4:00 AM CDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Twin Cities, MN

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Faribault County, MN

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this flash flood warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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WGUS53 KMPX 180606
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MNC043-180900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
100 AM CDT TUE JUN 18 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  FARIBAULT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 400 AM CDT

* RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN  OVER THE       
  WARNED AREA. RADAR ESTIMATES SUGGEST THAT RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF      
  AROUND 2 INCHES...HAS OCCURRED SINCE MIDNIGHT.   

* SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE                 
  TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...ESPECIALLY FROM WINNEBAGO TO KIESTER.

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 4382 9369 4352 9369 4353 9420 4383 9421

NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 17, 3:00 PM CDT, 10 hours earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
300 PM CDT MON JUN 17 2002

WEAK AREA OF CONVECTION IS BEING MAINTAINED BY MID LEVEL THETA-E
ADVECTION GENERATED BY A SHORT WAVE TROUGH...NOW INTO S CENTRAL MN.
THE PROBLEM WILL BE REDEVELOPMENT TONIGHT.  MODELS ARE SIMILAR IN
GENERATING STRONG 850-700 MB THETA-E ADVECTION AHEAD OF THE NEXT
SHORT WAVE TROUGH...NOW OVER WRN SD.  BEST INSTABILITY AND
INSTABILITY GRADIENT APPEARS TO DEVELOP IN WRN AND SRN ZONES...BUT
CLOUDS AND A FEW SHOWERS COULD SPREAD INTO E CENTRAL MN AS WELL.

SRLY FLOW BRINGS HIGHER DEWPOINTS AND WARM ADVECTION AHEAD OF THE A
STRONGER TROUGH...FORECAST TO CROSS THE NRN ROCKIES BY TUE
AFTERNOON.  HEATING COULD BE AFFECTED BY DEBRIS FROM EARLY MORNING
CONVECTION (AS TODAY) AND THE AVN IS SLOWER THAN THE ETA IN DRIVING
THE WARM AIR INTO MN.  IT APPEARS THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER
WILL BE IN WRN MN ZONES.  WEDNESDAY WILL ALSO BE WARM AND UNSTABLE
WITH BETTER DYNAMICS FOR MUCH OF MN AND NW WI.  AN MCS IS POSSIBLE
WEDNESDAY NIGHT IN MN.  A SHORT WAVE RIDGE IS FORECAST FOR
THURSDAY...WITH ANOTHER TROUGH SHOWING POTENTIAL FOR AN MCS
SOMEWHERE IN MN FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING.

.MSP...NONE.
 CWS

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

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.