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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2014, 6:07 PM CDT for 4 counties in 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, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2014, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Rice County, MN, Waseca County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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, 6:30 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Waseca, MN | STREET FLOODING ALL OVER TOWN |
| Jun 16, 6:35 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Waseca, MN | MINOR STREET FLOODING AROUND TOWN 5 TO 8 INCHES DEEP STORM DRAINS BACKED UP. |
| Jun 16, 8:35 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 2 Sw Waseca, MN | PORTION OF COUNTY ROAD 75 BARRICADED DUE TO PART OF ROADWAY WASHED OUT. |
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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
299
WGUS53 KMPX 162307
FFWMPX
MNC013-079-131-161-170200-
/O.NEW.KMPX.FF.W.0007.140616T2307Z-140617T0200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
607 PM CDT MON JUN 16 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
EASTERN BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
NORTHERN WASECA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
SOUTHEASTERN LE SUEUR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
SOUTHWESTERN RICE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 900 PM CDT
* AT 606 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 UP 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 COULD EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
WASECA...ELYSIAN...WATERVILLE...AND MORRISTOWN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
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 4389 9413 4405 9378 4425 9378 4432 9340
4402 9341
$$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, 4:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Martin, Watonwan | 3 hr |
| 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, 6:20 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.