Alert archive / Minnesota / Areal Flood Warnings in 2016
Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this areal flood warning at Jul 11, 2016, 7:37 AM CDT for Chippewa County, Lac qui Parle County, Swift County, Minnesota. It was in force for 113 min. 2 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
- Jul 11, 2016, 7:37 AM CDT (12:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2016, 9:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Chippewa County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Swift County, MN
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:39 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 8:37 AM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 3.75 | Madison, MN | OCCURRED AT LOCAL RADIO STATION. STREET FLOODING (OVER CURBS), WAS ALSO REPORTED. |
| Jul 11, 9:00 AM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 2.93 | Madison, MN | . |
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 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1008 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted.
256
WGUS43 KMPX 111237
FLWMPX
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
737 AM CDT MON JUL 11 2016
MNC023-073-151-111430-
/O.NEW.KMPX.FA.W.0002.160711T1237Z-160711T1430Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
SWIFT MN-LAC QUI PARLE MN-CHIPPEWA MN-
737 AM CDT MON JUL 11 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN SWIFT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
NORTHWESTERN CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 930 AM CDT
* AT 736 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN WHICH WILL CAUSE FLOODING. UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN
HAVE ALREADY FALLEN.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
MADISON...DAWSON...APPLETON...MILAN...BELLINGHAM...MARIETTA...
CERRO GORDO...PROVIDENCE...HOLLOWAY...NASSAU...
LOUISBURG AND FLORIDA CREEK WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 4526 9645 4525 9629 4522 9627 4519 9617
4519 9612 4518 9610 4524 9610 4524 9612
4525 9612 4525 9589 4481 9597 4480 9645
$$
DWEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 2:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Douglas, Todd | 74 min |
| Jul 11, 3:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Pope, Stevens | 44 min |
| Jul 11, 3:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Morrison, Pope, Stearns, Todd | 61 min |
| Jul 11, 4:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison | 40 min |
| Jul 11, 4:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison | 51 min |
| Jul 11, 6:50 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift, Yellow Medicine | 85 min |
| Jul 11, 9:22 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift | 6 hr |
| Jul 11, 9:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kandiyohi, Morrison, Redwood, Renville, Stearns, Todd | 55 min |
| Jul 11, 10:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton, McLeod, Meeker, Mille Lacs | 71 min |
| Jul 11, 11:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton, Stearns | 24 min |
| Jul 11, 11:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Sherburne, Stearns | 29 min |
| Jul 11, 12:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Morrison | 49 min |
| Jul 11, 1:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Mille Lacs, Morrison | 37 min |
| Jul 11, 1:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Todd | 38 min |
| Jul 11, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 34 min |
| Jul 11, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec | 35 min |
| Jul 11, 3:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Todd | 35 min |
| Jul 11, 3:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Isanti, Sherburne | 33 min |
| Jul 11, 4:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Isanti | 47 min |
| Jul 11, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago, Isanti | 42 min |
| Jul 11, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker | 32 min |
| Jul 11, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 35 min |
| Jul 11, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 34 min |
| Jul 11, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Morrison, Stearns | 28 min |
| Jul 11, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Morrison | 17 min |
| Jul 11, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Stearns | 26 min |
| Jul 11, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Stearns | 32 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.