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Areal Flood Warning 6, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this areal flood warning at Jul 28, 2025, 10:00 AM CDT for Pope County, Stevens County, Minnesota. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 2025, 10:00 AM CDT (15:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2025, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Pope County, MN, Stevens County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 188 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 816 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -380 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1166 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood warning went out at Jul 28, 7:11 AM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 7:11 AM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle | 40 min |
| Jul 27, 7:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | McLeod | 53 min |
| Jul 27, 7:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Pope, Swift | 67 min |
| Jul 27, 7:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Hennepin, Ramsey | 47 min |
| Jul 27, 7:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Meeker, Wright | 43 min |
| Jul 27, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod, Meeker, Wright | 34 min |
| Jul 27, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey | 32 min |
| Jul 27, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 61 min |
| Jul 27, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington | 38 min |
| Jul 27, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott, Sibley | 50 min |
| Jul 27, 8:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Ramsey, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Scott | 45 min |
| Jul 27, 9:17 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 42 days |
| Jul 27, 9:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MPX | Stevens | 12 hr |
| Jul 27, 10:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Steele | 66 min |
| Jul 27, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele | 37 min |
| Jul 27, 11:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Martin | 47 min |
| Jul 28, 12:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Martin | 45 min |
| Jul 28, 11:51 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Redwood, Renville | 21 days |
| Jul 28, 6:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stevens | 34 min |
| Jul 28, 6:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stevens | 115 min |
| Jul 28, 6:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Douglas | 47 min |
| Jul 27, 8:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Saint Croix | 48 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.