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Areal Flood Warning 1, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this areal flood warning at Mar 12, 2010, 7:01 PM CST for Scott County, Minnesota. It was in force for 12 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
- Mar 12, 2010, 7:01 PM CST (01:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2010, 7:00 AM CST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Scott County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:00 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 627 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 warning went out at Mar 12, 6:07 PM CST, 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 6:07 PM CST, 54 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 12, 12:37 PM CST, 6 hours 24 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1237 PM CST FRI MAR 12 2010 MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028- 131845- 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- 1237 PM CST FRI MAR 12 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA...AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT PATCHY DENSE FOG WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY AS THE SNOW CONTINUES TO MELT...AND RUNOFF FROM THE RAINFALL AND SNOW BEGINS TO FILTER INTO AREAS STREAMS AND CREEKS...EXPECT SIGNIFICANT RISES IN AREA RIVERS OVER THE NEXT WEEK. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST RIVER FLOOD WATCHES AND WARNINGS ACROSS MINNESOTA FOR MORE INFORMATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 9:30 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Douglas, Faribault and 24 more | 13 hr |
| Mar 13, 6:52 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | MPX | Scott | 4 hr |
| Mar 13, 9:59 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | MPX | Scott | 24 hr |
| Mar 13, 1:58 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | MPX | Scott | 24 hr |
| Mar 13, 2:59 PM CST | River Flood Watch | MPX | Todd | 6 days |
| Mar 13, 2:59 PM CST | River Flood Watch | MPX | Dakota, Washington | 6 days |
| Mar 13, 3:54 PM CST | River Flood Watch | MPX | Dakota, Washington | 21 hr |
| Mar 13, 3:54 PM CST | River Flood Watch | MPX | Todd | 21 hr |
Nearby
Areal Flood Warnings in Minnesota, 2010Every areal flood warning in 2010
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.