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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this flash flood warning at Sep 3, 2014, 5:55 PM CDT for Morrison County, Minnesota. It was in force for 3 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
- Sep 3, 2014, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2014, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Morrison County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 6:10 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Little Falls, MN | MANY STREETS IN TOWN ARE FLOODED. |
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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 1649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
653 WGUS53 KMPX 032255 FFWMPX MNC097-040200- /O.NEW.KMPX.FF.W.0020.140903T2255Z-140904T0200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 555 PM CDT WED SEP 3 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL MORRISON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 554 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. RAINFALL TOTALS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES HAVE ALREADY OCCURRED... WITH AN ADDITIONAL INCH OR TWO POSSIBLE THROUGH 7 PM CDT. * RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... LITTLE FALLS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES... DIPS... OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM... EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT OR IN A VEHICLE. && LAT...LON 4601 9430 4595 9431 4595 9444 4602 9443 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 5:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa | 42 min |
| Sep 3, 6:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa | 2 hr |
| Sep 3, 6:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Swift | 2 hr |
| Sep 3, 8:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kandiyohi | 2 hr |
| Sep 3, 8:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker, Renville | 49 min |
| Sep 3, 9:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Renville, Sibley | 39 min |
| Sep 3, 9:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod, Sibley | 23 min |
| Sep 3, 10:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | McLeod | 26 min |
| Sep 3, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod | 24 min |
| Sep 3, 10:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Wright | 51 min |
| Sep 3, 11:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 30 min |
| Sep 3, 11:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stevens | 36 min |
| Sep 3, 12:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton | 47 min |
| Sep 3, 12:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope, Stevens | 44 min |
| Sep 3, 12:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Todd | 35 min |
| Sep 3, 12:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Sherburne | 41 min |
| Sep 3, 12:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stevens | 50 min |
| Sep 3, 1:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Pope | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 1:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope, Stearns | 35 min |
| Sep 3, 2:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Todd | 41 min |
| Sep 3, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 44 min |
| Sep 3, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 31 min |
| Sep 3, 3:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Todd | 48 min |
| Sep 3, 3:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kanabec | 50 min |
| Sep 3, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs | 30 min |
| Sep 3, 4:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Morrison | 47 min |
| Sep 3, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Mille Lacs, Morrison | 53 min |
| Sep 3, 4:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Morrison | 41 min |
| Sep 3, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec | 43 min |
| Sep 3, 5:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Todd | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 5:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Mille Lacs, Morrison | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 6:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Mille Lacs | 51 min |
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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.