Alert archive / North Dakota / Flash Flood Warnings in 2014
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 2014, 2:24 AM CDT for Richland County, North Dakota; Wilkin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 66 min. 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 19, 2014, 2:24 AM CDT (07:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2014, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Wilkin County, MN, Richland County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 3:00 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 2 Sse Breckenridge, MN | WIDESPREAD STREET FLOODING OCCURRED IN BRECKENRIDGE PROPER. DITCHES...FIELDS AND FARM ACCESS ROADS WERE BRIEFLY FLOODED JUST SOUTH OF TOWN ALONG HIGHWAY 9. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 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
- 1475 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1398 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 7.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
018 WGUS53 KFGF 190728 FFWFGF MNC167-NDC077-190830- /O.NEW.KFGF.FF.W.0002.140619T0728Z-140619T0830Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 224 AM CDT THU JUN 19 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL RICHLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... CENTRAL WILKIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 330 AM CDT * AT 224 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME HAD FALLEN AS OF 220 AM AND RAIN WAS CONTINUING. * RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... WAHPETON AND BRECKENRIDGE. * AT 220 AM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN SO FAR IN WAHPETON AND A LOT OF STREET FLOODING WAS OCCURRING. THE FOLLOWING STREAMS ARE INCLUDED IN THE WARNING...WILD RICE RIVER AND TOAD RIVER. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING ARE HARD TO RECOGNIZE. TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. AVOID DRIVING ON FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. 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 4634 9647 4620 9648 4620 9669 4634 9671 $$ JR
1 follow-up statement
147 WGUS73 KFGF 190831 FFSFGF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 331 AM CDT THU JUN 19 2014 MNC167-NDC077-190846- /O.EXP.KFGF.FF.W.0002.000000T0000Z-140619T0830Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ RICHLAND ND-WILKIN MN- 331 AM CDT THU JUN 19 2014 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR CENTRAL WILKIN AND EAST CENTRAL RICHLAND COUNTIES... EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO RECEDE...ENDING THE FLOOD THREAT. HOWEVER...THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF MORE RAINFALL MOVING IN FROM THE SOUTH LATER THIS MORNING. IF FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED...PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING ARE HARD TO RECOGNIZE. TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. AVOID DRIVING ON FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. && LAT...LON 4634 9647 4620 9648 4620 9669 4634 9671 $$ JR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Ransom | 26 min |
| Jun 18, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Cass, Ransom | 27 min |
| Jun 19, 2:12 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FGF | Cass, Richland | 7 hr |
| Jun 19, 7:50 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FGF | Richland | 4 days |
| Jun 19, 7:57 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FGF | Richland | 5 days |
| Jun 19, 1:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Polk, Red Lake | 59 min |
| Jun 19, 10:34 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FGF | Clay | 6 days |
| Jun 19, 10:34 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FGF | Norman | 7 days |
| Jun 19, 11:35 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 3 days |
| Jun 19, 4:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Otter Tail | 52 min |
| Jun 19, 5:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Becker | 55 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in North Dakota, 2014Flash Flood Warnings in Minnesota, 2014Every flash flood warning in 2014
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.