Alert archive / Minnesota / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this flash flood warning at May 5, 2007, 10:38 AM CDT for Wilkin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 2007, 10:38 AM CDT (15:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2007, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wilkin County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:42 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 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 302 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 521 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 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 KFGF 051539
FFWFGF
MNC167-052200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
1038 AM CDT SAT MAY 5 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
WILKIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 500 PM CDT SATURDAY
* AT 1027 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTH THROUGH
WILKIN COUNTY. AN OBSERVER FROM 1 MILE SOUTHWEST OF TENNEY REPORTS
3.4 INCHES OF RAINFALL. RADAR IS SHOWING 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL
HAS OCCURRED ACROSS MUCH OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL WILKIN COUNTY. AN
ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE THROUGH SATURDAY
AFTERNOON.
* MANY DITCHES ARE REPORTED FULL AND OVER FLOWING. THE RABBIT
RIVER HAS RISEN ONE HALF FOOT IN THE PAST 3 HOURS...AND WILL
CONTINUE TO RISE RAPIDLY. OTHER SMALL STREAMS WILL SHOW SIMILAR
RISES THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE TENNEY...LAWNDALE...EVERDELL
AND DORAN.
MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR
VEHICLE INTO WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. ONE OR TWO FEET OF WATER WILL
FLOAT MOST CARS DOWNSTREAM.
LAT...LON 4662 9633 4661 9662 4661 9675 4643 9669
4634 9658 4610 9654 4603 9656 4603 9635
$$
TG2 follow-up statements
000
WGUS73 KFGF 051832
FFSFGF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
132 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2007
MNC167-052200-
WILKIN MN-
132 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2007
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR
WILKIN COUNTY...
AT 132 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORT VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN
SINCE THIS MORNING. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED IN SOUTHWEST
WILKIN COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF TENNEY AND CAMPBELL. 3 TO
3.5 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS BEEN REPORTED ACROSS THIS AREA. THE
RABBIT RIVER HAS RISEN ABOUT ONE FOOT SINCE THIS MORNING ALONG AND
WEST OF CAMPBELL. THE RABBIT RIVER AND SMALL STREAMS WILL CONTINUE
TO RAPIDLY RISE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. THERE IS PLENTY OF STANDING
WATER AND DITCHES ARE NEAR FULL.
THE REMAINDER OF WILKIN COUNTY HAS RECEIVED 1 TO 3 INCHES OF
RAINFALL. THE HEAVIEST BAND OF 2 TO 3 INCHES HAS FALLEN FROM DORAN
TO EVERDELL TO LAWNDALE. THE OTTERTAIL RIVER AND SMALL STREAMS MAY
SHOW RAPID RISES THROUGH THE AFTERNOON.
MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR
VEHICLE INTO WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. ONE OR TWO FEET OF WATER WILL
FLOAT MOST CARS DOWNSTREAM.
LAT...LON 4662 9633 4661 9662 4661 9675 4643 9669
4634 9658 4610 9654 4603 9656 4603 9635
$$
TG000
WGUS73 KFGF 052202
FFSFGF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
459 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2007
MNC167-052209-
WILKIN MN-
459 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2007
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 500 PM CDT FOR WILKIN
COUNTY...
AT 455 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THAT ADDITIONAL LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS WILL MOVE THROUGH WILKIN COUNTY
THIS EVENING...BUT IT APPEARS THAT ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL
STAY WEST OF THE AREA.
LOCALIZED 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN FELL FROM MIDNIGHT TO ABOUT 9 AM IN
THE CAMPBELL...DORAN...AND TENNEY AREAS. ADDITIONAL RAIN SINCE 9 AM
HAS BEEN LIGHT ALLOWING WATER TO SOAK IN SOME AND FLOW INTO THE
RIVERS. CALLS TO SPOTTERS AND TO THE SHERIFF OFFICE INDICATE NO
ROAD CLOSING AT THIS TIME.
LAT...LON 4662 9633 4661 9662 4661 9675 4643 9669
4634 9658 4610 9654 4603 9656 4603 9635
$$
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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.