Alert archive / Minnesota / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2004, 6:07 PM CDT for Faribault County, Freeborn County, Minnesota. It was in force for 4 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
- Jul 5, 2004, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2004, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 139 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 KMPX 052312 FFWMPX MNC043-047-060300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 607 PM CDT MON JUL 5 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... FARIBAULT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA FREEBORN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 607 PM CDT...RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF THE WARNED AREA. THE STORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MYRTLE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AUSTIN. ESTIMATES FROM RADAR INDICATED THAT NEARLY 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN DURING THE PAST 2 HOURS...OVER THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF FARIBAULT AND FREEBORN COUNTIES. PARTS OF THE AREA MAY RECEIVE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1 TO 3 INCHES AS STORMS MOVE NORTH FROM IOWA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...ALBERT LEA...ALDEN... BLUE EARTH...BRICELYN...CLARKS GROVE...CONGER AND DELAVAN. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST VEHICLES INCLUDING SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND PICKUPS. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 4345 9310 4378 9309 4378 9422 4355 9418 $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KMPX 060017 FFSMPX MNC043-047-060300- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 713 PM CDT MON JUL 5 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR FREEBORN AND FARIBAULT COUNTIES... AT 713 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN 26 MILES SOUTH OF ALBERT LEA. THE STORMS PRODUCING THE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE ANOTHER INCH OF RAIN BEFORE 8 PM. AT 640 PM...A RADIO STATION IN ALBERT LEA REPORTED STREET FLOODING IN PARTS OF ALBERT LEA...AND SOME RURAL COUNTY ROADS WERE BECOMING FLOODED. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST VEHICLES INCLUDING SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND PICKUPS. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 4345 9310 4378 9309 4378 9422 4355 9418 $$ JPR
000 WGUS73 KMPX 060206 FFSMPX MNC043-047-060300- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 900 PM CDT MON JUL 5 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR FREEBORN AND FARIBAULT COUNTIES... AT 9 PM...RADAR WAS SHOWING MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL OCCURRING OVER THE EASTERN PART OF FREEBORN COUNTY...BUT ONLY LIGHT RAIN WAS FALLING OVER MOST OF FARIBAULT COUNTY. SOME ROADS WERE REPORTED TO BE FLOODED IN SOUTHEAST FREEBORN COUNTY. AS OF 7 PM...A SPOTTER REPORTED 4.25 INCHES OF RAIN BETWEEN LONDON AND MYRTLE. A SPOTTER REPORTED 2.75 INCHES OF RAIN NEAR GLENVILLE. EVEN THOUGH RAINFALL RATES ARE SHOWING SIGNS OF DECREASING...RUNOFF MAY STILL BE CAUSING HIGH WATER AND FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST VEHICLES INCLUDING SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND PICKUPS. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 4345 9310 4378 9309 4378 9422 4355 9418 $$
000 WGUS73 KMPX 060314 FFSMPX MNC043-047-060330- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1010 PM CDT MON JUL 5 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR FREEBORN AND FARIBAULT COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED... AT 10 PM...RADAR WAS SHOWING SCATTERED LIGHT SHOWERS OVER FARIBAULT COUNTY...AND STEADY RAIN WAS SLOWLY DIMINISHING OVER EASTERN FREEBORN COUNTY. NO FURTHER REPORTS OF SIGNIFICANT FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED SINCE 9 PM. RADAR TRENDS AND SHORT TERM FORECAST DATA SUGGEST THAT ADDITIONAL FLOOD PRODUCING RAINS ARE NOT EXPECTED. SOIL AND WATER CONDITIONS FROM THE RECENT RAINS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE A THREAT TO LIVES OR PROPERTY...THUS A WARNING WILL NOT BE EXTENDED. LAT...LON 4345 9310 4378 9309 4378 9422 4355 9418 $$
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.