Alert archive / Minnesota / Areal Flood Warnings in 2014
Areal Flood Warning 4, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this areal flood warning at Jul 11, 2014, 2:34 AM CDT for Otter Tail County, Wadena County, Minnesota. It was in force for 4 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
- Jul 11, 2014, 2:34 AM CDT (07:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2014, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Otter Tail County, MN, Wadena County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 189 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:36 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 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 2:02 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FGF | Otter Tail, Wadena | 5 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.