Alert archive / Minnesota / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2004, 5:10 PM CDT for Dickinson County, Osceola County, Iowa; Cottonwood County, Jackson County, Nobles County, Minnesota. It was in force for 110 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2004, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2004, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 110 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Dickinson County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Cottonwood County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Nobles County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 548 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 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 052210
FFWFSD
IAC059-143-MNC033-063-105-060000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
510 PM CDT MON JUL 5 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
DICKINSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA
OSCEOLA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA
COTTONWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA
JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA
NOBLES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 700 PM CDT
* AT 500 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED WATER
OVER HIGHWAY 60 NEAR BIGELOW MINNESOTA. THERE WAS ALSO A REPORT OF
STREET FLOODING IN SPIRIT LAKE IOWA. THREE INCHES OF RAIN WAS
REPORTED TO HAVE OCCURRED AT RUSHMORE MINNESOTA IN AN HOUR.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE EXPECTED THROUGH
700 PM CDT OVER THE AREA.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL 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 SUBJECT TO FLOODING.
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 4330 9581 4330 9501 4402 9492 4406 9538
4373 9541 4364 9576
$$
WB2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KFSD 052325 FFSFSD IAC059-143-MNC033-063-105-060000- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 624 PM CDT MON JUL 5 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR... ...DICKINSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA... ...OSCEOLA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA... ...COTTONWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA... ...NOBLES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA... ...JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA... AT 615 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN OVER SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA. THERE WERE EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE RAIN OVER NOBLES...JACKSON AND SOUTHERN COTTONWOOD COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND FAR NORTHERN PARTS OF OSCEOLA AND DICKINSON COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST IOWA. AT 605 PM CDT IT WAS REPORTED THAT WATER WAS ABOUT TO OVERFLOW INTERSTATE 90...2 MILES WEST OF RUSHMORE MINNESOTA. ALSO THE WAS CONSIDERABLE STREET FLOODING AND SEWER BACKUP IN WORTHINGTON MINNESOTA. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 4403 9496 4335 9502 4332 9566 4369 9565 $$ WB
000 WGUS73 KFSD 052359 FFSFSD IAC059-143-MNC033-063-105-060045- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 700 PM CDT MON JUL 5 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING EXPIRED FOR... ...DICKINSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA... ...OSCEOLA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA... ...COTTONWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA... ...NOBLES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA... ...JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND SURFACE REPORTS INDICATED THAT THE RAINFALL OVER SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA WAS DECREASING IN INTENSITY. OVER ALL ADDITIONAL RAINFALL DURING THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS IS EXPECTED TO BE A QUARTER OF AN INCH OR LESS...WITH A FEW AREAS GETTING AROUND A HALF INCH. PONDED WATER WILL BE SLOW TO DRAIN AWAY WITH THE SATURATED GROUND AND HIGH WATER LEVELS IN SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS. 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. LAT...LON 4403 9496 4335 9502 4332 9566 4369 9565 $$ WB
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Minnesota, 2004Flash 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.