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Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this flash flood watch at Jun 14, 2013, 3:37 AM CDT for 7 counties in Iowa; Fillmore County, Mower County, Minnesota. It took effect at Jun 14, 2013, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 23 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2013, 3:37 AM CDT (08:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 14, 2013, 4:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2013, 2:51 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 hr
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Chickasaw County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Howard County, IA, Mitchell County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA, Fillmore County, MN, Mower County, MN
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:40 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 2050 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS La Crosse, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Jun 13, 5:30 PM CDT, 10 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 5:30 PM CDT, 10 hours 7 minutes before
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Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 8:53 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ARX | Chickasaw, Floyd | 7 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Iowa, 2013Flash Flood Watches in Minnesota, 2013Every flash flood watch in 2013
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.