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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 7, 2005Wilkin County, Minnesota; Richland County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jun 7, 2005, 6:15 AM CDT for Wilkin County, Minnesota; Richland County, North Dakota. It was in force for 7 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 7, 2005, 6:15 AM CDT (11:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2005, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Wilkin County, MN, Richland County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:19 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 2051 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2155 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KFGF 071121
FFWFGF
MNC167-NDC077-071800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
615 AM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN RICHLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA
  WILKIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 100 PM CDT

* AT 607 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  THAT 2.5 TO 3.0 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN FROM A LINE OF HEAVY     
  THUNDERSTORMS THAT PASSED BY EARLY THIS MORNING. STREET FLOODING   
  AND STANDING WATER WAS REPORTED IN YARDS IN WAHPETON. THERE WILL
  BE CONTINUED SHOWERS AND POSSIBLY A THUNDERSTORM THIS MORNING BUT 
  THE HEAVY RAIN FOR THIS MORNING HAS ENDED AND WILL CONTRIBUTE      
  LITTLE TO PROBLEM OF WATER.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WAHPETON...BRECKENRIDGE...
  SONORA AND MOORETON.

TORRENTIAL THUNDERSTORM RAIN CAN TURN STREETS INTO SMALL RIVERS.
PARENTS SHOULD ENSURE THAT CHILDREN DO NOT PLAY IN FLOOD WATERS.

LAT...LON 4660 9694 4599 9690 4607 9632 4660 9637

$$
GV

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS73 KFGF 071549
FFSFGF
MNC167-NDC077-071800-

FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
1049 AM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM FOR EASTERN
RICHLAND COUNTY NORTH DAKOTA AND WILKIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL
MINNESOTA...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DROPPED 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN ACROSS PORTIONS OF
RICHLAND AND WILKIN COUNTIES EARLY THIS TUESDAY MORNING. LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORT MINOR STREET FLOODING IN BOTH WAHPETON
AND BRECKENRIDGE CONTINUES...ALTHOUGH THE SITUATION HAS IMPROVED.

LOCAL AREA RIVERS INCLUDING THE MAINSTEM RED...ANTELOPE CREEK AND 
RABBIT RIVER HAVE RISEN SEVERAL FEET DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINS AND WILL 
CONTINUE TO RESPOND AS RUNOFF CONTINUES. AREA DITCHES AND STREAMS 
ARE SLOWLY RECOVERING...YET HIGH WATER WILL REMAIN A HAZARD INTO 
EARLY AFTERNOON.


MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR 
VEHICLE INTO WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. ONE OR TWO FEET OF WATER WILL 
FLOAT MOST CARS DOWNSTREAM.


$$
EWENS

000 
WGUS73 KFGF 071810
FFSFGF
MNC167-NDC077-071818-

FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
109 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR RICHLAND COUNTY NORTH DAKOTA AND WILKIN
COUNTY MINNESOTA ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 100 PM...

CONDITIONS IN THE WAHPETON AND BRECKENRIDGE AREAS CONTINUE TO IMPROVE
AS RUNOFF SUBSIDES. HOWEVER...AREA RIVER AND STREAMS CONTINUE TO 
QUICKLY RESPOND TO SUBURBAN RUNOFF AND WILL RISE THROUGH THE NEXT 
SEVERAL DAYS. 

ALSO...MORE STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS FORECAST TO AFFECT THE 
VALLEY REGION LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WITH MANY AREAS 
SATURATED FROM THE PAST WEEKS RAINFALLS...FLOODING IS AGAIN LIKELY 
WHERE HEAVY RAINS OCCUR. A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH 
WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST AND WEST 
CENTRAL MINNESOTA.



$$
EWENS

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.