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Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Twin Cities, MN

September 24, 2005Goodhue County, Rice County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this flash flood warning at Sep 24, 2005, 10:56 PM CDT for Goodhue County, Rice County, Minnesota. It was in force for 6 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 24, 2005, 10:56 PM CDT (03:56 UTC)
Expired: Sep 25, 2005, 5:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Goodhue County, MN, Rice County, MN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 24, 11:45 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Faribault, MN	2 TO 3 FEET OF WATER REPORTEDLY CROSSING ROADWAYS IN TOWN. REPORTED BY COUNTY DISPATCH.

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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KMPX 250358
FFWMPX
MNC049-131-251000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1056 PM CDT SAT SEP 24 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GOODHUE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA
  RICE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 500 AM CDT

* AT 1056 PM CDT...RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY 
  RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF THE WARNED AREA. 
  EXPECT ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS TO REDEVELOP AND PASS OVER THE     
  WARNED AREA...RESULTING IN EXCESSIVE RAINFALL.
  SOME STREET FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN FARIBAULT AT 1050 PM.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...DENNISON...DUNDAS...
  FARIBAULT...GOODHUE...KENYON...LONSDALE AND NERSTRAND.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IMMINENT.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.

LAT...LON 4425 9347 4424 9264 4457 9246 4448 9303
      4448 9348

$$

RJN

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KMPX 250837
FFSMPX

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
335 AM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005

MNC049-131-250845-
GOODHUE MN-RICE MN-
335 AM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR RICE AND GOODHUE COUNTIES HAS BEEN
CANCELLED...

ALTHOUGH LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS RICE AND 
GOODHUE COUNTIES FOR MUCH OF THE REMAINDER OF THE MORNING...THE 
HEAVIEST RAINS HAVE MOVED SOUTH OF THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE...THE 
FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

RADAR ESTIMATES THAT UP TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN ALONG A LINE 
FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF FARIBAULT TO WEST OF WASTEDO...ALTHOUGH MUCH 
OF THIS FELL SEVERAL HOURS AGO. STANDING WATER MAY REMAIN IN 
ISOLATED LOCATIONS...ESPECIALLY IN THE CITY OF FARIBAULT. RAINFALL 
RATES ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN LOW ENOUGH FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE 
MORNING THAT ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING IS NOT EXPECTED.

LAT...LON 4425 9347 4424 9264 4457 9246 4448 9303
      4448 9348

$$

KAT

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 24, 9:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Nicollet, Watonwan	6 hr
Sep 24, 10:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Steele, Waseca	6 hr
Sep 24, 11:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Faribault, Freeborn, Martin	3 hr
Sep 25, 1:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Faribault, Freeborn, Martin	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Minnesota, 2005 Every flash flood warning in 2005

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.