Alert archive / Wisconsin / Areal Flood Advisories in 2011
Areal Flood Advisory 40, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this areal flood advisory at Jul 28, 2011, 6:55 PM CDT for 4 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 2011, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2011, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Chippewa County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Pepin County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 1122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.3
- Supercell composite
- -1.3
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 Jul 28, 6:18 PM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 6:18 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 28, 11:42 AM CDT, 7 hours 13 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1142 AM CDT THU JUL 28 2011 MNZ082>085-091>093-291645- WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH-WASECA-STEELE-MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN- 1142 AM CDT THU JUL 28 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA SATURDAY NIGHT...AND AGAIN MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME OF THE STORMS SATURDAY NIGHT COULD BE SEVERE...PRIMARILY OVER CENTRAL MINNESOTA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-WIZ014>016-023>028-291645- 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-POLK-BARRON-RUSK- ST. CROIX-PIERCE-DUNN-PEPIN-EAU CLAIRE- 1142 AM CDT THU JUL 28 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA... AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA SATURDAY NIGHT...AND AGAIN MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME OF THE STORMS SATURDAY NIGHT COULD BE SEVERE...PRIMARILY OVER CENTRAL MINNESOTA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 2:27 PM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 227 PM CDT THU JUL 28 2011 MNZ077-078-083>085-091>093-282200- BLUE EARTH-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-GOODHUE-MARTIN-RICE-STEELE-WASECA- 227 PM CDT THU JUL 28 2011 ...FUNNEL CLOUDS OBSERVED IN THE AREA... AT 222 PM CDT...FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE REPORTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH A THUNDERSTORM IN FREEBORN COUNTY NEAR ALBERT LEA. ADDITIONAL SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN AN AXIS FROM NEAR BLUE EARTH IN FARIBAULT COUNTY NORTHEAST TO NEAR RED WING IN GOODHUE COUNTY. ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADDITIONAL FUNNEL CLOUDS IN THE AREA THROUGH 500 PM CDT. CONDITIONS ARE NOT FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES TO DEVELOP FROM SUCH FUNNELS... BUT IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THEY COULD BRIEFLY EXTEND TO THE GROUND AND RESULT IN A TORNADO... AND IF THAT WERE TO OCCUR LOCALIZED MINOR DAMAGE MAY OCCUR. BE AWARE AND KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL INTO PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA THIS AFTERNOON... AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD A TORNADO BE OBSERVED OR IF WARNINGS ARE ISSUED.
Local storm report, Jul 28, 2:54 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
254 PM CDT THU JUL 28 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0222 PM FUNNEL CLOUD CONGER 43.62N 93.53W
07/28/2011 FREEBORN MN LAW ENFORCEMENT
FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED NEAR THE TOWN OF CONGER.
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DEVINNYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 3:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Freeborn, Goodhue, Rice, Steele | 4 hr |
| Jul 28, 5:21 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Eau Claire | 3 hr |
Nearby
Areal Flood Advisories in Wisconsin, 2011Every areal flood advisory in 2011
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.