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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 21, 2013Pope County, Stevens County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 21, 2013, 5:39 PM CDT for Pope County, Stevens County, Minnesota. It was in force for 6 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 2013, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2013, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Pope County, MN, Stevens County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 21, 6:25 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Morris, MN	STREETS FLOODED IN MORRIS.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 189 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1820 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -340 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -402 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

218 
WGUS53 KMPX 212239
FFWMPX
MNC121-149-220430-
/O.NEW.KMPX.FF.W.0008.130621T2239Z-130622T0430Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
539 PM CDT FRI JUN 21 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  POPE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
  STEVENS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT

* AT 537 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE      
  WARNED AREA. 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE IN THE NEXT FEW 
  HOURS.

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
  OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...     
  GLENWOOD...STARBUCK...CYRUS...HANCOCK AND MORRIS.

THIS AREA RECEIVED WIDESPREAD 3 TO 6 INCHES OF RAINFALL WITHIN THE 
LAST 24 HOURS MAKING IT VERY PRONE TO FLOODING PROBLEMS AT THIS 
TIME. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.

&&

LAT...LON 4564 9625 4576 9553 4576 9515 4542 9513
      4540 9625

$$

SPD

1 follow-up statement

924 
WGUS73 KMPX 220236
FFSMPX

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
936 PM CDT FRI JUN 21 2013

MNC121-149-220251-
/O.CAN.KMPX.FF.W.0008.000000T0000Z-130622T0430Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
POPE MN-STEVENS MN-
936 PM CDT FRI JUN 21 2013

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR STEVENS AND POPE
COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS
AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO
RECEDE...ENDING THE FLOOD THREAT. IF FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED...
PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

LAT...LON 4564 9625 4576 9553 4576 9515 4542 9513
      4540 9625

$$

SPD

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 8:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Douglas	42 min
Jun 20, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas, Pope, Stearns, Todd	66 min
Jun 20, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stevens	61 min
Jun 20, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Todd	25 min
Jun 20, 10:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	MPX	Benton, Chippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Meeker and 7 more	9 hr
Jun 20, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	64 min
Jun 20, 11:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope	54 min
Jun 20, 11:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Pope, Stevens	6 hr
Jun 21, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope	64 min
Jun 21, 12:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton, Morrison	47 min
Jun 21, 12:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Pope	6 hr
Jun 21, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas, Stevens	55 min
Jun 21, 12:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Stevens	5 hr
Jun 21, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Pope, Stevens, Swift	64 min
Jun 21, 12:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Douglas, Pope, Stearns, Todd	5 hr
Jun 21, 1:31 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Pope	29 min
Jun 21, 1:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Stearns, Swift	53 min
Jun 21, 1:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Pope, Stearns	5 hr
Jun 21, 1:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	53 min
Jun 21, 2:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker, Renville, Stearns, Wright	67 min
Jun 21, 2:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton, Sherburne, Stearns, Wright	67 min
Jun 21, 2:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Kandiyohi	45 min
Jun 21, 2:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, Hennepin, McLeod, Wright	64 min
Jun 21, 3:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Sherburne	56 min
Jun 21, 3:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown, McLeod, Nicollet, Redwood, Renville, Sibley	61 min
Jun 21, 3:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Ramsey, Scott, Washington	57 min
Jun 21, 4:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Rice, Steele, Waseca, Watonwan	53 min
Jun 21, 4:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue, Rice	65 min
Jun 21, 6:03 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MPX	Douglas, Pope, Stearns, Stevens, Todd	6 hr
Jun 21, 6:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Martin, Waseca	4 hr
Jun 21, 6:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Faribault, Freeborn	4 hr
Jun 21, 7:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Faribault	32 min
Jun 21, 8:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Faribault, Martin	38 min
Jun 21, 10:54 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MPX	Todd	6 days
Jun 21, 3:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	MPX	Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more	15 hr
Jun 21, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	59 min
Jun 21, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle	13 min
Jun 21, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	62 min
Jun 21, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Swift	55 min
Jun 21, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine	59 min
Jun 21, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas, Pope, Stevens	66 min
Jun 21, 5:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MPX	Douglas, Pope, Stearns, Stevens, Todd	6 hr
Jun 21, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Swift	57 min
Jun 21, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns	52 min
Jun 21, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine	63 min
Jun 21, 6:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Morrison	68 min
Jun 21, 6:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	McLeod	43 min
Jun 21, 6:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Hennepin, Isanti, Ramsey and 3 more	2 hr
Jun 21, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker, Stearns	49 min
Jun 21, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, McLeod, Wright	38 min

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.