Alert archive / Minnesota / Areal Flood Advisories in 2008
Areal Flood Advisory 2, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this areal flood advisory at Jun 8, 2008, 12:54 AM CDT for Freeborn County, Minnesota. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2008, 12:54 AM CDT (05:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2008, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Freeborn County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 1710 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood advisory went out at Jun 8, 12:10 AM CDT, 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 12:10 AM CDT, 44 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 110 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 2008 MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028- 081000- DOUGLAS-TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS- BENTON-SHERBURNE-ISANTI-CHISAGO-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA- KANDIYOHI-MEEKER-WRIGHT-HENNEPIN-ANOKA-RAMSEY-WASHINGTON- YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-CARVER-SCOTT-DAKOTA- REDWOOD-BROWN-NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-RICE-GOODHUE-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH- WASECA-STEELE-MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-POLK-BARRON-RUSK- ST. CROIX-PIERCE-DUNN-PEPIN-EAU CLAIRE- 110 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA...AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHERN MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN BY LATE AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA LATE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA INTO SUNDAY MORNING PROMPTING A FLASH FLOOD WATCH TO BE ISSUED FOR AREAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM NEW ULM TO RED WING. RAINFALL RATES COULD REACH OR EXCEED ONE INCH PER HOUR WITH TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS RANGING FROM 2 TO 3 INCHES ACROSS THE WATCH AREA WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS. HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN LATE TONIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN SUNDAY MORNING AND INTO SUNDAY AFTERNOON. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. MDB/KAT
In the hours before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 2:56 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Freeborn | 4 hr |
| Jun 8, 6:47 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Freeborn | 118 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.