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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 2005, 6:14 PM CDT for Eddy County, North Dakota. It was in force for 12 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 11, 2005, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2005, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Eddy County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1339 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 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 KFGF 112315 FFWFGF NDC027-121100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 614 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EDDY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 600 AM CDT * AT 607 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR SHEYENNE TO 4 MILES SOUTH OF NEW ROCKFORD...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 24 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DEVILS LAKE TO 36 MILES SOUTH OF DEVILS LAKE. THE STORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING SLOWLY NORTH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE NEW ROCKFORD AND SHEYENNE. 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. LAT...LON 4784 9927 4762 9924 4762 9855 4782 9856 $$ JCA
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KFGF 121058 FFSFGF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 557 AM CDT SUN JUN 12 2005 NDC027-121107- EDDY ND- 557 AM CDT SUN JUN 12 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR EDDY COUNTY IS CANCELLED... AT 557 AM CDT...HEAVY RAINS HAVE MOVED OUT OF EDDY COUNTY. HOWEVER THE THREAT OF FLOODING CONTINUES OVER THE AREA. THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE REPLACED WITH AN AREAL FLOOD WARNING SHORTLY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. LAT...LON 4784 9927 4762 9924 4762 9855 4782 9856 $$ KENNEDY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 1:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Richland | 12 hr |
| Jun 11, 2:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Cass, Ransom, Sargent | 11 hr |
| Jun 11, 6:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 12 hr |
| Jun 11, 6:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Traill | 12 hr |
| Jun 11, 6:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Benson, Cavalier, Ramsey | 12 hr |
| Jun 11, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Traill | 39 min |
| Jun 11, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Cass | 47 min |
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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.