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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 16, 2014Martin County, Watonwan County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2014, 4:33 PM CDT for Martin County, Watonwan County, Minnesota. It was in force for 3 hr. 3 reports 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 16, 2014, 4:33 PM CDT (21:33 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2014, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Martin County, MN, Watonwan County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 16, 6:00 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	1 N Fairmont, MN	STREET FLOODING VIA SOCIAL MEDIA
Jun 16, 6:15 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Welcome, MN	HEAVY RAINS 2.5 INCHES ALL AFTERNOON DITCHES FULL AND WATER RISING ON THE SLOPING LAWNS.
Jun 16, 6:35 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Welcome, MN	NUMEROUS GRAVEL ROADS WASHED OUT MINNEWASKA TOWNSHIP

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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -158 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1817 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

651 
WGUS53 KMPX 162133
FFWMPX
MNC091-165-170100-
/O.NEW.KMPX.FF.W.0005.140616T2133Z-140617T0100Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
433 PM CDT MON JUN 16 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MARTIN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
  SOUTHWESTERN WATONWAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 430 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE
  WARNED AREA... WITH ADDITIONAL STORMS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE
  AREA OVER THE NEXT HOUR AND A HALF. RAINFALL TOTALS OF AN INCH TO AN
  INCH AND A HALF HAVE ALREADY OCCURRED BASED ON RADAR ESTIMATES... AND
  AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT HOUR AND A HALF
  IN SOME LOCATIONS.

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
  OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  FAIRMONT...TRIMONT...ODIN... AND SHERBURN.

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 4351 9448 4356 9487 4396 9486 4389 9469
      4367 9425 4349 9425 4349 9443

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 10:50 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MPX	Brown	7 days
Jun 16, 10:50 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	24 days
Jun 16, 11:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	MPX	Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Le Sueur and 10 more	13 hr
Jun 16, 1:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift, Yellow Medicine	53 min
Jun 16, 2:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Lac qui Parle	65 min
Jun 16, 2:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift	54 min
Jun 16, 2:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Renville, Swift, Yellow Medicine	3 hr
Jun 16, 3:14 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MPX	Brown, Nicollet, Redwood, Renville, Sibley	3 hr
Jun 16, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Martin	44 min
Jun 16, 3:43 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin, Watonwan	3 hr
Jun 16, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Martin, Watonwan	44 min
Jun 16, 4:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Martin	37 min
Jun 16, 4:19 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	MPX	Anoka, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago, Dakota and 23 more	9 hr
Jun 16, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Brown, Watonwan	52 min
Jun 16, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Martin	56 min
Jun 16, 5:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MPX	Freeborn, Steele, Waseca	4 hr
Jun 16, 5:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Martin	31 min
Jun 16, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Watonwan	58 min
Jun 16, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Faribault, Martin	62 min
Jun 16, 5:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Watonwan	3 hr
Jun 16, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth	44 min
Jun 16, 5:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Blue Earth	36 min
Jun 16, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Le Sueur, Rice, Waseca	49 min
Jun 16, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Faribault, Freeborn	58 min
Jun 16, 6:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Rice, Waseca	3 hr
Jun 16, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Steele	40 min
Jun 16, 6:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Steele, Waseca	3 hr
Jun 16, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Freeborn	31 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.