Alert archive / Minnesota / Flash Flood Watches in 2013
Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this flash flood watch at Jun 22, 2013, 4:27 AM CDT for 18 counties in Minnesota; 17 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Jun 22, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2013, 4:27 AM CDT (09:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 22, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2013, 6:48 AM CDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
All 35 counties
Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Lake of the Woods County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Cass County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Towner County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:33 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 317 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -691 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2268 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Jun 22, 3:59 AM CDT, 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 3:59 AM CDT, 28 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 21, 7:50 PM CDT, 8 hours 37 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 750 PM CDT FRI JUN 21 2013 MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-221200- WEST POLK-NORMAN-CLAY-KITTSON-ROSEAU-LAKE OF THE WOODS- WEST MARSHALL-EAST MARSHALL-NORTH BELTRAMI-PENNINGTON-RED LAKE- EAST POLK-NORTH CLEARWATER-SOUTH BELTRAMI-MAHNOMEN- SOUTH CLEARWATER-HUBBARD-WEST BECKER-EAST BECKER-WILKIN- WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-WADENA-GRANT-TOWNER-CAVALIER- PEMBINA-BENSON-RAMSEY-EASTERN WALSH-EDDY-NELSON-GRAND FORKS- GRIGGS-STEELE-TRAILL-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT-RICHLAND- WESTERN WALSH- 750 PM CDT FRI JUN 21 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THE MAIN THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS SHIFTED SOUTH OF OUR REGION WITH THE MAIN EMPHASIS FROM NEBRASKA INTO SOUTHERN MINNESOTA WHERE A WARM FRONT WAS LOCATED. THE RAIN IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA WILL END BY MIDNIGHT. OTHERWISE THERE IS STILL A RISK OF A FEW SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA INTO NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA BUT THE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER IS QUITE LOW IT NOW APPEARS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY ANOTHER DISTURBANCE WILL BRING A RISK OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY NIGHT...WITH THE MAIN SEVERE RISK BEING FROM SOUTH DAKOTA INTO CENTRAL MINNESOTA...WITH THE NORTHERN EDGE NEAR A BEMIDJI TO WAHPETON LINE. HEAVY RAIN THREAT AS WELL FOR THE MINNESOTA LAKES COUNTRY. THE RAIN THREAT WILL EXIT SUNDAY AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. RIDDLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 8:55 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FGF | Cass | 63 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Minnesota, 2013Flash Flood Watches in North Dakota, 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.