Alert archive / Minnesota / Areal Flood Warnings in 2010
Areal Flood Warning 19, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this areal flood warning at Sep 22, 2010, 4:30 PM CDT for Faribault County, Freeborn County, Martin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 9 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
- Sep 22, 2010, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 23, 2010, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Martin County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 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, 9.5 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
- 1121 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 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 Sep 22, 3:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 22, 3:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 22, 4:03 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 403 PM CDT WED SEP 22 2010 MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028- 232115- 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- 403 PM CDT WED SEP 22 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA...AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...REST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT FOR LOCATIONS ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 94. THE PRIMARY THREATS WITH THIS ACTIVITY WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAINFALL. HOWEVER... LOCALIZED DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOST PREVALENT ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 90 THROUGH EARLY EVENING... WITH ACTIVITY BECOMING MORE WIDESPREAD OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA AS THE NIGHT PROGRESSES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA INTO THURSDAY AS A STRONG AREA OF LOW PRESSURE MOVES INTO CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THIS LOW WILL SEND A COLD FRONT ACROSS THE AREA THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. THIS WILL CONTINUE THE HEAVY RAIN AND FLOOD THREAT FOR THE AREA. IN ADDITION... A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA INTO WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN... WITH THE GREATEST LIKELIHOOD FOR SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM ANY ACTIVITY ON THURSDAY WILL BE DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. HEAVY RAINFALL EXPECTED FROM TODAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT WILL LEAD TO RISES ON MANY LOCAL STREAMS AND RIVERS. THIS MAY RESULT IN SEVERAL RIVERS REACHING OR EXCEEDING FLOOD STAGE... ESPECIALLY ACROSS CENTRAL MINNESOTA INTO WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN... FROM LATER THIS WEEK INTO NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS IN PROGRESS FOR PORTIONS OF THE AREA... WITH ADDITIONAL ACTIVATION POSSIBLE TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 22, 3:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
316 PM CDT WED SEP 22 2010
MNZ084-085-092-093-222100-
FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-STEELE-WASECA-
316 PM CDT WED SEP 22 2010
...STRONG HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER
FARIBAULT...FREEBORN...STEELE AND WASECA COUNTIES THROUGH 400 PM
CDT...
AT 315 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF BRUSH CREEK. THIS STORM WAS MOVING
EAST AT 35 MPH.
HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE...WINDS UP TO 45 MPH...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
EASTON.
WELLS.
WALDORF.
FREEBORN.
OTISCO.
HARTLAND.
ALBERT LEA.
OWATONNA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE HALF TO ONE AND A HALF INCHES ARE PROBABLE
FROM THE THUNDERSTORM BY 430 PM. THIS MAY RESULT IN BRIEF RUNOFF
PROBLEMS AND PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS.
THIS THUNDERSTORM COULD INTENSIFY QUICKLY...SO BE READY TO ACT IF A
WARNING IS ISSUED.
&&
LAT...LON 4385 9405 4385 9378 4393 9377 4409 9319
4361 9314 4359 9397
TIME...MOT...LOC 2015Z 257DEG 31KT 4375 9383Special weather statement, Sep 22, 4:13 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 413 PM CDT WED SEP 22 2010 MNZ064>067-073>076-082-083-222215- YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-REDWOOD-BROWN-NICOLLET- LE SUEUR-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GRANITE FALLS...OLIVIA...HUTCHINSON... GAYLORD...REDWOOD FALLS...NEW ULM...ST. PETER...LE SUEUR... ST. JAMES...MANKATO 413 PM CDT WED SEP 22 2010 ...STRONG WINDS LIKELY THROUGH 515 PM ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... STRONG SOUTHEAST WINDS OF 35 TO 50 MPH WILL OCCUR ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...INCLUDING ALONG THE MINNESOTA RIVER VALLEY. WIND GUSTS OF 46 MPH HAVE BEEN OBSERVED NEAR 400 PM AT MARSHALL AND REDWOOD FALLS...ALONG WITH SEVERAL OTHER GUSTS NEAR 35 MPH. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THESE GUSTS TO CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH 515 PM. EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THE RAIN MAY PRESENT EVEN STRONGER WINDS. WHILE THESE BROAD SCALE STRONG WINDS WILL LIKELY SUBSIDE BY THE END OF THE AFTERNOON....THE RISK FOR SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LAST INTO THE EVENING. THESE WINDS ARE BEING CAUSED BY WHAT IS COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS A WAKE LOW NEAR AREAS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 4:00 AM CDT | Flood Watch | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more | 46 hr |
| Sep 22, 11:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet | 20 days |
| Sep 22, 11:50 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | MPX | Redwood | 9 hr |
| Sep 22, 11:50 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet | 9 hr |
| Sep 22, 11:50 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 52 hr |
| Sep 22, 11:50 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet | 21 min |
| Sep 22, 11:50 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | MPX | Carver, Scott | 45 hr |
| Sep 22, 11:50 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, Scott | 45 hr |
| Sep 22, 3:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn, Steele | 44 min |
| Sep 22, 4:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Blue Earth, Steele, Waseca, Watonwan | 8 hr |
| Sep 22, 6:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Brown, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Redwood, Rice | 6 hr |
| Sep 22, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin, Watonwan | 61 min |
| Sep 22, 11:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 5 days |
| Sep 22, 11:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 4 days |
| Sep 22, 11:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Buffalo, Pepin | 7 days |
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.