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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Twin Cities, MN

August 20, 2007Martin County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this flash flood warning at Aug 20, 2007, 9:06 AM CDT for Martin 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 20, 2007, 9:06 AM CDT (14:06 UTC)
Expired
Aug 20, 2007, 12:15 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Martin County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:09 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 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 151 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2007-08-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2007-08-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 133 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
492 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KMPX 201406
FFWMPX
MNC091-201715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
906 AM CDT MON AUG 20 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS EXTENDED THE

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MARTIN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 1215 PM CDT

* AT 905 AM CDT...RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY
  HEAVY RAIN OVER JACKSON COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25  
  MPH AND WILL BEGIN TO OVERSPREAD MARTIN COUNTY BY 930 AM. RAINFALL 
  FROM 1 TO 2 INCHES IS LIKELY AS THE STORMS MOVE ACROSS MARTIN      
  COUNTY THIS MORNING. WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED BY RECENT   
  RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA...ANY ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL RUNOFF AND  
  CAUSE FLOODING.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...FAIRMONT...
  SHERBURN...TRIMONT AND TRUMAN.

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 4351 9485 4351 9425 4383 9428 4383 9484

$$

RAH
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS73 KMPX 201557
FFSMPX

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1056 AM CDT MON AUG 20 2007

MNC091-201603-
MARTIN MN-
1056 AM CDT MON AUG 20 2007

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

AT 1055 AM...RADAR INDICATED THAT RAINFALL HAD MOVED EAST OF MARTIN 
COUNTY. THE FLOOD THREAT HAS ENDED. ALSO...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS 
INDICATED NO WATER PROBLEMS ON AREA ROADS. THEREFORE...THE FLASH 
FLOOD WARNING FOR MARTIN COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 4351 9485 4351 9425 4383 9428 4383 9484

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 20, 4:10 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchMPXBlue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Le Sueur and 9 more23 hr
Aug 20, 5:10 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMPXMartin4 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.