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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this flash flood warning at Oct 4, 2005, 9:07 PM CDT for Pierce County, Saint Croix County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 3 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
- Oct 4, 2005, 9:07 PM CDT (02:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 5, 2005, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Pierce County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:08 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 938 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 429 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 13.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KMPX 050209
FFWMPX
WIC093-109-050530-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
907 PM CDT TUE OCT 4 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
ST. CROIX COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
PIERCE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
* UNTIL 1230 AM CDT
* AT 907 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WILL VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE MOVING
INTO THIS AREA. RAINFALL RATES OF 2 INCHES AN HOUR ARE
ANTICIPATED THROUGH ABOUT MIDNIGHT. THE GROUND HAS ALREADY BEEN
SATURATED BY RECENT RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA...AND ADDITIONAL
RAIN WILL RUNOFF AND CAUSE FLOODING.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...BALDWIN...BAY CITY...
DEER PARK...ELLSWORTH...GLENWOOD CITY...HAMMOND AND NEW RICHMOND.
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 4472 9275 4458 9250 4456 9218 4521 9216
4522 9272
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS73 KMPX 050316
FFSMPX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1012 PM CDT TUE OCT 4 2005
WIC093-109-050530-
ST. CROIX WI-PIERCE WI-
1012 PM CDT TUE OCT 4 2005
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1230 AM CDT FOR
PIERCE AND ST. CROIX COUNTIES...
AT 1012 PM CDT...RADAR DETECTED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
VERY HEAVY RAIN OVERSPREADING THE AREA FROM THE WEST. ESTIMATES FROM
RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL RATES OF ONE...TO ONE AND ONE HALF INCHES
PER HOUR WITH THESE STORMS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE
AREA BETWEEN 1030 PM AND 1130 PM.
EXPECT ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS TO REDEVELOP AND PASS OVER THE WARNED
AREA...THROUGH MIDNIGHT RESULTING IN EXCESSIVE RAINFALL.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...ELLSWORTH AND NEW
RICHMOND.
MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE
INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER
CAN CARRY AWAY MOST VEHICLES INCLUDING SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND
PICKUPS. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 4472 9275 4458 9250 4456 9218 4521 9216
4522 9272
$$
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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.