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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this flash flood warning at Aug 19, 2007, 6:20 PM CDT for Faribault County, Minnesota. It was in force for 115 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 2007, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2007, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Faribault County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 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 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KMPX 192321 FFWMPX MNC043-200115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 620 PM CDT SUN AUG 19 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... FARIBAULT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 620 PM CDT...RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF THE WARNED AREA. THE STORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE 4 MILES NORTH OF EASTON...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF BLUE EARTH. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. ESTIMATES FROM RADAR INDICATED THAT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT HOUR. . * SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...MINNESOTA LAKE AND WELLS. 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. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. JUST ONE FOOT OF RUSHING WATER CAN SWEEP MOST VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 4374 9404 4355 9366 4384 9366 4384 9404 $$ MDB
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KMPX 200039 FFSMPX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 735 PM CDT SUN AUG 19 2007 MNC043-200115- FARIBAULT MN- 735 PM CDT SUN AUG 19 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR FARIBAULT COUNTY... AT 735 PM CDT...RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUNTLEY...OR ABOUT 4 MILES EAST OF FAIRMONT. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO THE WARNED AREA WHICH HAS SEEN VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM EARLIER STORMS. RAINFALL RATES OF AROUND 1 INCH PER HOUR WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...BLUE EARTH... BRICELYN...DELAVAN...EASTON...FROST...KIESTER AND MINNESOTA LAKE. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IMMINENT. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FORGE FLOODED ROADWAYS BY FOOT OR AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS... ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. JUST ONE FOOT OF RUSHING WATER CAN SWEEP MOST VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 4353 9420 4352 9368 4384 9366 4383 9420 $$ MDB
000 WGUS73 KMPX 200116 FFSMPX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 813 PM CDT SUN AUG 19 2007 MNC043-200123- FARIBAULT MN- 813 PM CDT SUN AUG 19 2007 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR FARIBAULT COUNTY EXPIRED AT 815 PM CDT... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EASTWARD ALONG INTERSTATE 90 THROUGH 845 PM CDT. THESE SHOWERS HAVE WEAKENED AND RAINFALL RATES HAVE DECREASED. LOCALIZED PONDING OF WATER MAY BE STILL BE POSSIBLE AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE EVENING. LAT...LON 4353 9420 4352 9368 4384 9366 4383 9420 $$ MDB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 10:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 6 hr |
| Aug 18, 10:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Nicollet, Rice, Sibley | 6 hr |
| Aug 19, 12:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Steele, Waseca | 4 hr |
| Aug 19, 12:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Steele, Waseca | 4 hr |
| Aug 19, 1:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Brown, Redwood, Renville | 6 hr |
| Aug 19, 2:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 6 hr |
| Aug 19, 3:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Watonwan | 6 hr |
| Aug 19, 8:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Le Sueur and 9 more | 16 hr |
| Aug 19, 12:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Watonwan | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 2:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Watonwan | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Minnesota, 2007Every flash flood warning in 2007
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.