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Areal Flood Warning 4, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this areal flood warning at Mar 13, 2010, 1:58 PM CST for Scott County, Minnesota. It was in force for 24 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 13, 2010, 1:58 PM CST (19:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2010, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 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 19:58 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, 8.0 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
- 535 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 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 13, 11:45 AM CST, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 11:45 AM CST, 2 hours 13 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 7:01 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | MPX | Scott | 12 hr |
| 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, 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
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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.