Alert archive / Iowa / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2004, 12:58 PM CDT for Ida County, Iowa. It was in force for 92 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 2004, 12:58 PM CDT (17:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2004, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 92 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ida County, IA
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:59 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 1:57 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Battle Creek, IA | BATTLE CREEK OUT OF ITS BANKS IN A FEW PLACES. CREEK LEVEL IS JUST A FEW INCHES BELOW SOME OF THE BRIDGES...DEBRIS BUMPS THE UNDERSIDE OF BRIDGES WHEN PASSING UNDER. STREETS STILL FLOODED. SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS ARE UNDER WATER. |
| Jun 16, 1:57 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Battle Creek, IA | BATTLE CREEK OUT OF ITS BANKS IN A FEW PLACES. CREEK LEVEL IS JUST A FEW INCHES BELOW SOME OF THE BRIDGES...DEBRIS BUMPS THE UNDERSIDE OF BRIDGES WHEN PASSING UNDER. STREETS STILL FLOODED. SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS ARE UNDER WATER. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 338 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -410 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1794 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KFSD 161802 FFWFSD IAC093-161930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1258 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... IDA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA * UNTIL 230 PM CDT * AT 1255 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS WERE CAUSING WIDE SPREAD STREET FLOODING IN IDA GROVE AND BATTLE CREEK. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. LEVELS ON BATTLE CREEK...ODEBOLT CREEK...THE MAPLE RIVER ARE LIKELY TO CONTINUE TO RISE AS RESULT OF THE EXCESSIVE RUNOFF. BETWEEN NOON AND NEAR 100 PM OVER 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL WAS MEASURED IN BATTLE CREEK. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY UNTIL MID AFTERNOON. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 4254 9566 4223 9567 4223 9536 4256 9535 $$ DEMORIN/PS
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KFSD 161856 FFSFSD IAC093-161930- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 151 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 230 PM CDT FOR IDA COUNTY... AT 147 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED LEVELS RISING ON THE ODEBOLT CREEK AND BATTLE CREEK...AS WELL AS THE MAPLE RIVER IN IDA COUNTY. STREET FLOODING ALSO CONTINUES IN TOWNS AND CITIES...ESPECIALLY IDA GROVE AND BATTLE CREEK. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUES TO CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE ALSO FLOODING. SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS ARE UNDER WATER. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 4254 9566 4223 9567 4223 9536 4256 9535 $$ DEMORIN/PS
000 WGUS73 KFSD 161932 FFSFSD IAC093-162000- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 235 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR IDA COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED ACROSS IDA COUNTY AND HEAVY RAIN IS NOT EXPECTED TO RESUME THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. ALTHOUGH WATER HAS RECEDED IN MOST LOCATIONS...SOME LOW-LYING ROADWAY...ROAD SIDE DITCHES...AND SMALL STREAMS MAY STILL BE FULL OF RAPIDLY MOVING WATER. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO WALK THROUGH WATER WHICH IS FLOWING RAPIDLY. LAT...LON 4254 9566 4223 9567 4223 9536 4256 9535 $$ PS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 10:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Ida | 24 min |
| Jun 16, 10:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 113 min |
| Jun 16, 10:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Ida | 34 min |
| Jun 16, 11:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Ida | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Iowa, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.