Alert archive / Minnesota / Flash Flood Watches in 2016
Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this flash flood watch at Jun 21, 2016, 3:50 PM CDT for 6 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Jun 21, 2016, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 2016, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 21, 2016, 10:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2016, 2:56 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Martin County, MN, Watonwan County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 2131 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
419 WGUS63 KMPX 212050 FFAMPX URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLOOD WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 350 PM CDT TUE JUN 21 2016 ...HEAVY RAINFALL THREAT INCREASING... .HEAVY RAINFALL WILL DEVELOP LATER THIS EVENING ALONG A WARM FRONT THAT WILL MOVE NORTHWARD AND HOLD NEAR THE MINNESOTA...IOWA BORDER TONIGHT. ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE WILL INCREASE LATER TONIGHT AND WILL SET THE STAGE FOR HEAVIER RAINFALL RATES. THE ADDED AFFECT OF THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLY TRAINING ALONG THIS WARM FRONT...AND THE RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL...WILL LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING CONCERNS. MNZ074-082-083-091>093-220500- /O.NEW.KMPX.FF.A.0002.160622T0300Z-160622T1500Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BROWN-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH-MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEW ULM...ST JAMES...MANKATO... FAIRMONT...BLUE EARTH...ALBERT LEA 350 PM CDT TUE JUN 21 2016 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR A PORTION OF SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING AREAS...BLUE EARTH...BROWN... FARIBAULT...FREEBORN...MARTIN AND WATONWAN. * FROM 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING. * HIGH RAINFALL RATES...TRAINING OF THUNDERSTORMS AND RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTRIBUTE TO A HEIGHTENED FLASH FLOOD RISK. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS MAY DEVELOP THAT LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. FLASH FLOODING IS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION. YOU SHOULD MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS BE ISSUED. && $$ JLT
2 follow-up statements
499 WGUS63 KMPX 220359 FFAMPX FLOOD WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1059 PM CDT TUE JUN 21 2016 ...HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOOD THREAT BEGINNING TO UNFOLD LATE THIS EVENING... .THUNDERSTORMS ARE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING LATE THIS EVENING ACROSS FAR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA. THESE STORMS ARE ALREADY BEGINNING TO TRAIN OVER THE SAME AREAS AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE DEVELOPING OVERNIGHT. THIS IN ADDITION TO RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING CONCERNS THROUGH EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. MNZ074-082-083-091>093-221200- /O.CON.KMPX.FF.A.0002.000000T0000Z-160622T1500Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BROWN-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH-MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEW ULM...ST JAMES...MANKATO... FAIRMONT...BLUE EARTH...ALBERT LEA 1059 PM CDT TUE JUN 21 2016 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CDT WEDNESDAY... THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR * A PORTION OF SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING AREAS...BLUE EARTH...BROWN...FARIBAULT...FREEBORN...MARTIN AND WATONWAN. * UNTIL 10 AM CDT WEDNESDAY. * THUNDERSTORMS ARE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING LATE THIS EVENING. HIGH RAINFALL RATES...TRAINING OF THUNDERSTORMS AND RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTRIBUTE TO A HEIGHTENED FLASH FLOOD RISK OVERNIGHT AND EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS MAY DEVELOP THAT LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. FLASH FLOODING IS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION. YOU SHOULD MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS BE ISSUED. && $$ BORGHOFF
023 WGUS63 KMPX 220756 FFAMPX FLOOD WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 256 AM CDT WED JUN 22 2016 MNZ074-082-083-091>093-220900- /O.CAN.KMPX.FF.A.0002.000000T0000Z-160622T1500Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BROWN-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH-MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEW ULM...ST JAMES...MANKATO... FAIRMONT...BLUE EARTH...ALBERT LEA 256 AM CDT WED JUN 22 2016 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS CANCELLED... THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR A PORTION OF SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA HAS BEEN CANCELLED AS THE HEAVY RAIN THREAT HAS SHIFTED SOUTH FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT. $$
Nearby
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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.