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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 2005, 6:16 PM CDT for Grand Forks County, North Dakota. It was in force for 12 hr. 1 report 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 11, 2005, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2005, 6:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Grand Forks County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:20 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Grand Forks, ND | STREET FLOODING NEAR CITY LIBRARY. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 288 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 112320 FFWFGF NDC035-121145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 616 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... GRAND FORKS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 645 AM CDT * AT 612 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS. THE STORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING SLOWLY NORTH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE GRAND FORKS...THOMPSON... NORTHWOOD AND LARIMORE. RADAR INDICATES 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN WITH ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES EXPECTED IN A SHORT DURATION. 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 4816 9716 4817 9773 4769 9761 4770 9695 $$ TG
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KFGF 121102 FFSFGF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 601 AM CDT SUN JUN 12 2005 NDC035-121111- GRAND FORKS ND- 601 AM CDT SUN JUN 12 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR GRAND FORKS COUNTY IS CANCELLED... AT 601 AM CDT...THE HEAVY RAIN IN GRAND FORKS COUNTY HAS MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY. FLOOD WATERS HAVE SUBSIDED AND FLOODING IS NO LONGER A THREAT. SO THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. LAT...LON 4816 9716 4817 9773 4769 9761 4770 9695 $$ 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, 6:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Eddy | 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 |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.