Alert archive / Minnesota / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this flash flood warning at May 22, 2004, 12:16 AM CDT for Mower 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2004, 12:16 AM CDT (05:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2004, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mower County, MN
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:20 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 512 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KARX 220516 FFWARX MNC099-220815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 1216 AM CDT SAT MAY 22 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MOWER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 315 AM CDT * AT 1216 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ADAMS...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AUSTIN. ESTIMATES FROM RADAR INDICATED THAT NEARLY 1 INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN DURING THE PAST HOUR OVER THE WARNED AREA. THE STORMS PRODUCING THE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...AUSTIN... BROWNSDALE...GRAND MEADOW...ROSE CREEK...I 90 EXIT 193...I 90 EXIT 189 AND I 90 EXIT 187. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 4352 9303 4352 9247 4373 9247 4373 9305 $$ RABERDING
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KARX 220618 FFSARX MNC099-220815- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 117 AM CDT SAT MAY 22 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 AM CDT FOR MOWER COUNTY... AT 117 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE AREA. RAINFALL RATES OF ONE HALF INCH PER HOUR RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 315 AM...AND WILL AGGRAVATE THE FLASH FLOODING. THE STORMS PRODUCING THE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...AUSTIN...GRAND MEADOW...ROSE CREEK...I 90 EXIT 193...I 90 EXIT 189...I 90 EXIT 187 AND I 90 EXIT 183. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 4352 9303 4352 9247 4373 9247 4373 9305 $$ RABERDING
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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.