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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 10, 2016Goodhue County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 2016, 4:43 PM CDT for Goodhue County, Minnesota. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 10, 2016, 4:43 PM CDT (21:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2016, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Goodhue County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 92 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: 746 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -336 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1531 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 236 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 229 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

318 
WGUS53 KMPX 102143
FFWMPX
MNC049-110045-
/O.NEW.KMPX.FF.W.0002.160610T2143Z-160611T0045Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
443 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GOODHUE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 442 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
  ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  RED WING...CANNON FALLS...PINE ISLAND...ZUMBROTA...KENYON...GOODHUE...
  WANAMINGO...FRONTENAC...VASA...BELLECHESTER...FRONTENAC STATE PARK AND
  WASTEDO.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES WILL OCCUR IN
GOODHUE COUNTY BEFORE ENDING. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

&&

LAT...LON 4450 9302 4455 9233 4445 9229 4445 9243
      4437 9243 4436 9255 4420 9256 4420 9304

$$

JLT

1 follow-up statement

353 
WGUS73 KMPX 102316
FFSMPX

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
616 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 2016

MNC049-110045-
/O.CON.KMPX.FF.W.0002.000000T0000Z-160611T0045Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
GOODHUE MN-
616 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR
GOODHUE COUNTY...

AT 600 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT ALL THE THUNDERSTORMS
THAT WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA HAS ENDED.
HOWEVER...UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN BETWEEN THE
TOWNS OF GOODHUE...RED WING AND FRONTENAC. 

. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. 

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
GOODHUE...FRONTENAC...VASA...AND FRONTENAC STATE PARK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE
POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED
ROADS. FIND AN ALTERNATE ROUTE.

&&

LAT...LON 4450 9302 4455 9233 4445 9229 4445 9243
      4437 9243 4436 9255 4420 9256 4420 9304

$$

JLT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet, Sibley	64 min
Jun 10, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Scott, Sibley	52 min
Jun 10, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Waseca, Watonwan	62 min
Jun 10, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	57 min
Jun 10, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue, Rice	57 min
Jun 10, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Faribault, Martin	59 min
Jun 10, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	31 min
Jun 10, 4:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Faribault, Freeborn, Steele, Waseca	56 min
Jun 10, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	33 min
Jun 10, 5:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Faribault, Freeborn	114 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.