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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 13, 2005Douglas County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2005, 8:12 PM CDT for Douglas County, Minnesota. It was in force for 4 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 13, 2005, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2005, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Douglas County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 255 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: 526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 171 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 140113
FFWMPX
MNC041-140515-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
812 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  DOUGLAS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT

* AT 812 PM CDT...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO TRAIN ACROSS 
DOUGLAS COUNTY FROM THE SOUTH. 

WEATHER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT NEARLY 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS 
FALLEN DURING THE PAST 3 HOURS OVER THE WARNED AREA.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...BRANDON...CARLOS...
  EVANSVILLE...GARFIELD...MILLERVILLE...MILTONA AND NELSON.

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 4587 9573 4588 9516 4610 9517 4608 9574

$$

WET

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KMPX 140415
FFSMPX

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1112 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005

MNC041-140422-
DOUGLAS MN-
1112 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS HAVE RECEIVED NO FURTHER REPORTS OF 
FLOODING IN THE COUNTY. 

RADAR ALSO INDICATED THAT RAINFALL WAS DECREASING TO LIGHT SHOWERS 
AND NO ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD 
WARNING IS CANCELLED.   

LAT...LON 4587 9573 4588 9516 4610 9517 4608 9574

$$
JPR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka, Ramsey, Washington	60 min
Jun 13, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota	65 min
Jun 13, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton, Morrison	47 min
Jun 13, 7:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Ramsey	26 min
Jun 13, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope	53 min
Jun 13, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Isanti	50 min
Jun 13, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas	60 min
Jun 13, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker	43 min
Jun 13, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Le Sueur	48 min
Jun 13, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod	45 min
Jun 13, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Washington	67 min
Jun 13, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Mille Lacs	60 min
Jun 13, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chisago	66 min
Jun 13, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Rice, Scott	36 min
Jun 13, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift	33 min
Jun 13, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Todd	54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.