Alert archive / Minnesota / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this flash flood warning at Sep 25, 2005, 1:14 AM CDT for Jackson County, Minnesota. It was in force for 4 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
- Sep 25, 2005, 1:14 AM CDT (06:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2005, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jackson County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:15 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 2:30 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Jackson, MN | STREETS...FIELDS...AND BASEMENTS FLOODED |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 638 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 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 250616 FFWFSD MNC063-251015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 114 AM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 515 AM CDT * AT 114 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS JACKSON COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO ONE AND A HALF INCHES PER HOUR WILL CREATE ADDITIONAL AREAS OF FLOODING. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 4384 9546 4350 9544 4350 9486 4385 9488 $$ BT
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KFSD 250744 FFSFSD FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 237 AM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005 MNC063-251015- JACKSON MN- 237 AM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 AM CDT FOR JACKSON COUNTY... AT 237 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE AN AREA THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING OVER JACKSON COUNTY. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES ONE TO THREE INCHES OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL HAS FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA OVER THE PAST THREE HOURS....WITH TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS RANGING FROM 4 TO 6 INCHES. RAINFALL RATES AROUND ONE INCH PER HOUR ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE AS STORMS CONTINUE TO REGENERATE ACROSS THE AREA...CREATING ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 4384 9546 4350 9544 4350 9486 4385 9488 $$ BT
000 WGUS73 KFSD 251004 FFSFSD FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 504 AM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005 MNC063-251014- JACKSON MN- 504 AM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR JACKSON COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE THREAT FOR HEAVY RAINS HAS DIMINISHED...AND WIDESPREAD FLASH FLOODING IS NOT EXPECTED. HOWEVER...FLOODING ALONG RIVERS AND STREAMS IS STILL POSSIBLE THIS MORNING AS OVER NIGHT RAINS RUN OFF INTO THE RIVERS AND STREAMS. LAT...LON 4384 9546 4350 9544 4350 9486 4385 9488 $$ CJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Nobles | 28 min |
| Sep 24, 9:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson | 3 hr |
| Sep 24, 11:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Nobles | 4 hr |
| Sep 25, 12:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Cottonwood | 4 hr |
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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.