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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 22, 2002Rusk County, Wisconsin

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 2002, 6:09 AM CDT for Rusk County, Wisconsin. 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 22, 2002, 6:09 AM CDT (11:09 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 2002, 9:15 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Rusk County, WI

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:08 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 210 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2002-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2002-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 154 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-423 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1257 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
342 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 KMPX 221109
FFWMSP
WIC107-221415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
608 AM CDT SAT JUN 22 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  RUSK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 915 AM CDT

* AT 608 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY 
HEAVY RAINS OVER NORTHERN RUSK COUNTY WISCONSIN...OR BETWEEN BRUCE 
AND CONRATH.  

* 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.

CAMPERS IN THE WARNED ARE MUST MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.

LAT...LON 4561 9086 4532 9096 4532 9132 4558 9137

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 11:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXSaint Croix48 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Wisconsin, 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.