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Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS La Crosse, WI

June 16, 2004Fillmore County, Olmsted County, Minnesota

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2004, 5:58 PM CDT for Fillmore County, Olmsted 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: Jun 16, 2004, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2004, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Fillmore County, MN, Olmsted County, MN

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 421 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 530 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KARX 162300
FFWARX
MNC045-109-170200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
558 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  OLMSTED COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA
  FILLMORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 558 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  FILLMORE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF PRESTON. ESTIMATES       
  FROM RADAR INDICATED THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN DURING  
  THE PAST HOUR OVER THE WARNED AREA. THE STORMS PRODUCING THE VERY  
  HEAVY RAINFALL WERE MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...ROCHESTER...         
  CHATFIELD...EYOTA...FOUNTAIN...PRESTON...WYKOFF...I 90 EXIT 224    
  AND I 90 EXIT 218.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IMMINENT.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FORGE
FLOODED ROADWAYS BY FOOT OR AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS...
ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 4359 9234 4359 9203 4405 9220 4407 9241

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS73 KARX 162359
FFSARX
MNC045-109-170200-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
654 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR
FILLMORE AND OLMSTED COUNTIES...

AT 654 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS
PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN 5 MILES WEST OF CHATFIELD...OR ABOUT 15 
MILES NORTHWEST OF PRESTON. HOWEVER...THE STORMS ARE BEGINNING TO 
WEAKEN AND MOVE NORTHEAST OUT OF THE AREA. 

ESTIMATES FROM RADAR INDICATE THAT THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAD OCCURED
FROM JUST SOUTH OF PRESTON...TO CHATFIELD...TO THE SOUTHEAST SIDE OF 
ROCHESTER. THESE AREAS HAVE SEEN 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE 
LAST 4 HOURS. 

SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY STILL SEE FLOODING INCLUDE... 
EYOTA...FOUNTAIN...PRESTON...WYKOFF...I 90 BETWEEN 
EXITS 218 AND 229.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IMMINENT. 
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. 

RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE 
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FORGE 
FLOODED ROADWAYS BY FOOT OR AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE 
STALLS...ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 4359 9234 4359 9203 4406 9219 4407 9241

$$

000 
WGUS73 KARX 170226
FFSARX
MNC109-170300-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
925 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2004

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR OLMSTED COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...

AT 923 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR HAS SHOWN THAT 
THE RAIN HAS MOVED EAST OUT OF THE COUNTY. THE OLMSTED COUNTY SHERIFF
DEPARTMENT REPORTED THAT THERE WERE NO ROADS CLOSED BY FLOODING.
AS A RESULT...THE FLASK FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

$$

BOYNE

The office that day

Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 2:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Fillmore	67 min
Jun 16, 2:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	Fillmore	3 hr
Jun 16, 5:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Fillmore, Houston	27 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.