Alert archive / Minnesota / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this flash flood warning at Aug 18, 2007, 10:10 PM CDT for Houston County, Wabasha County, Winona County, Minnesota. It was in force for 3 hr. 12 reports 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
- Aug 18, 2007, 10:10 PM CDT (03:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2007, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Houston County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Winona County, MN
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:13 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 10:48 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 2 S Lewiston, MN | CAR STUCK IN HIGH WATER ON COUNTY 29. |
| Aug 18, 10:48 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 3 N Rushford, MN | STATE HIGHWAY 43 CLOSED SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 90 BY A MUDSLIDE. |
| Aug 18, 10:48 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 4 S Ridgeway, MN | MUDSLIDE ACROSS COUNTY 11. |
| Aug 18, 10:48 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Elba, MN | THE INTERSECTION OF COUNTY 74 AND STATE HIGHWAY 74 WAS FLOODED. |
| Aug 18, 10:48 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Stockton, MN | HIGHWAY 14 AT FARMERS PARK CLOSED BY FLOODING. |
| Aug 18, 11:00 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Lewiston, MN | TREE AND MUD SLIDES IN LEWISTON. |
| Aug 18, 11:35 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Winona, MN | STATE HIGHWAY 43 WASHED OUT JUST SOUTH OF WINONA. |
| Aug 19, 12:00 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 5 W Altura, MN | HIGHWAY 74 IN WHITE WATER STATE PARK IS COMPLETELY WASHED OUT |
| Aug 19, 12:05 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | La Crescent, MN | HIGHWAY 26 FROM LA CRESCENT TO THE IOWA BORDER IS CLOSED. HIGHWAY 16 FROM JUST SOUTH OF LA CRESCENT TO HOKAH IS CLOSED. HIGHWAY 61 FROM NORTH OF LA CRESCENT INTO WINONA COUNTY IS CLOSED. |
| Aug 19, 12:15 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 1 E Millville, MN | MUDSLIDE ON COUNTY 11. |
| Aug 19, 12:15 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 7 Ene Zumbro Falls, MN | 6 INCHES OF WATER OVER COUNTY 2 NORTH OF STATE HIGHWAY 60. |
| Aug 19, 12:15 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Zumbro Falls, MN | STREETS CLOSED IN DOWNTOWN BY HIGH WATER. |
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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 510 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 KARX 190312
FFWARX
MNC055-157-169-190615-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
1010 PM CDT SAT AUG 18 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
WABASHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA
WINONA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA
HOUSTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 115 AM CDT
* AT 1008 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF THE WARNED
AREA. RAIN GAGE REPORTS FROM THE WARNED AREA SHOW THAT NEARLY
6 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN DURING THE PAST 4 HOURS OVER
THE WARNED AREA. LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS MANY ROADS UNDER WATER IN
THE CITY OF LA CROSSE...WITH NUMEROUS MUD SLIDES BEING REPORTED IN
THE STEEPER TERRAIN AREAS. THIS EXTENDS THE WARNING FOR WINONA
AND HOUSTON COUNTIES.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...ALTURA...
BROWNSVILLE...CALEDONIA...GOODVIEW...HOKAH...HOUSTON AND KELLOGG.
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. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FORGE
FLOODED ROADWAYS BY FOOT OR AUTOMOBILE. REMEMBER...TURN AROUND DONT
DROWN.
LAT...LON 4403 9159 4384 9129 4357 9125 4363 9172
4384 9173 4385 9207 4419 9210 4421 9254
4436 9254 4438 9244 4445 9243 4442 9215
4435 9198 4417 9185
$$
RABERDINGThe office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 7:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Houston, Winona | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 9:45 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ARX | Olmsted, Winona | 34 hr |
| Aug 18, 10:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Houston, Winona | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 10:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Olmsted | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 11:15 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ARX | Olmsted | 11 hr |
| Aug 18, 11:15 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ARX | Olmsted | 30 hr |
| Aug 19, 12:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 6 hr |
| Aug 19, 12:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 6 hr |
| Aug 19, 3:22 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ARX | Olmsted | 26 hr |
| Aug 19, 8:58 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ARX | Fillmore, Houston | 8 hr |
| Aug 19, 10:15 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ARX | Wabasha | 43 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.