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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 29, 2005Mille Lacs County, Morrison County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 2005, 9:44 PM CDT for Mille Lacs County, Morrison County, Minnesota. 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: Jun 29, 2005, 9:44 PM CDT (02:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2005, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:47 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 2111 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 970 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 283 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 415 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.1
Supercell composite: 18.6

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KMPX 300245
FFWMPX
MNC095-097-300545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
944 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MORRISON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  MILLE LACS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 1245 AM CDT

* AT 944 PM CDT...SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS       
  EASTERN MORRISON AND NORTHERN MILLE LACS COUNTIES. 
  ESTIMATES FROM RADAR INDICATED THAT NEARLY 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS    
  FALLEN DURING THE PAST 2 HOURS OVER THE WARNED AREA.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...BUCKMAN...GENOLA...  
  HARDING...HILLMAN...LASTRUP...LITTLE FALLS...ONAMIA...PAGE...AND   
  COVE.

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 4588 9452 4587 9355 4617 9349 4615 9450

$$

MKM/RJN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 7:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Watonwan	24 min
Jun 29, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison, Todd	63 min
Jun 29, 7:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Watonwan	31 min
Jun 29, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown	43 min
Jun 29, 7:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Brown	35 min
Jun 29, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Renville	57 min
Jun 29, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Martin	38 min
Jun 29, 7:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Blue Earth	49 min
Jun 29, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Watonwan	55 min
Jun 29, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Nicollet	52 min
Jun 29, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison	62 min
Jun 29, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood	23 min
Jun 29, 8:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Nicollet	50 min
Jun 29, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Martin	62 min
Jun 29, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown	55 min
Jun 29, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Renville, Sibley	64 min
Jun 29, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Le Sueur	61 min
Jun 29, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Faribault	64 min
Jun 29, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Watonwan	44 min
Jun 29, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Mille Lacs	58 min
Jun 29, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth	56 min
Jun 29, 9:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Kanabec, Mille Lacs	55 min
Jun 29, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka, Chisago, Washington	61 min
Jun 29, 9:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Le Sueur	37 min
Jun 29, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Rice	60 min
Jun 29, 9:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Scott	45 min
Jun 29, 9:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver	55 min
Jun 29, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Hennepin	49 min
Jun 29, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Waseca	48 min
Jun 29, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Steele	41 min
Jun 29, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue, Rice	49 min
Jun 29, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Ramsey, Washington	39 min

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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.