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Areal Flood Warning 28, NWS Twin Cities, MN

September 25, 20106 counties in Wisconsin

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this areal flood warning at Sep 25, 2010, 2:42 PM CDT for 6 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 4 days. 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 25, 2010, 2:42 PM CDT (19:42 UTC)
Expired
Sep 29, 2010, 3:38 PM CDT
In force
4 days
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Chippewa County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Rusk County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 150 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 2010-09-25Temperature 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°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2010-09-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -95 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1094 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 25, 12:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 25, 12:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 25, 10:34 AM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1034 AM CDT SAT SEP 25 2010

MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028-
261545-
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-
1034 AM CDT SAT SEP 25 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA...AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

FLOOD WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA
AND PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. PLEASE CHECK THE LATEST
FLOOD STATEMENTS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

MANY RIVERS AND STREAMS HAVE REACHED OR ARE FORECAST TO EXCEED
FLOOD STAGE ACROSS SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INTO WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
INTO NEXT WEEK. PLEASE CHECK THE LATEST FLOOD STATEMENTS FOR
ADDITIONAL 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 25, 2:21 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningMPXBlue Earth, Brown, Dakota, Goodhue, Le Sueur, Nicollet and 4 more3 days
Sep 25, 3:41 PM CDTFrost AdvisoryMPXChisago, Isanti, Kanabec16 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Wisconsin, 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.