1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 22, 1:50 AM CST, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 250 AM CDT SAT JUN 22 2002 THE MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE ARE TSRA CHANCES THROUGH THE PERIOD. FRONTAL BOUNDARY LIES OVER SOUTHERN MN WILL SLOWLY LIFT NORTH INTO CENTRAL MN DURING THE PERIOD. ANOTHER FRONT WILL BEGIN TO PUSH SOUTH OUT OF CANADA ON SUNDAY. 700 MB TEMPS WERE ALREADY PLUS 10 DEGREES CELSIUS OVER THE SOUTHERN MN. THIS HAS INHIBIT TRSA DEVELOPMENT...AND WILL LIKELY PREVENT IN ACTIVITY INIGITING OVR OUR SOUTHERN PORTION TODAY AND TONIGHT. FRONTAL BOUNDARY FORECAST TO PUSH BACK SOUTHWARD ON SUNDAY ALONG WITH OUTFLOW BOUNDARY PROBABLY ASSOCIATED WITH CONVECTION EXPECTED OVERNIGHT AND SUNDAY. WL INCREASE THE CHANCES OF TSRA LATE SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT OVER CWA. OUR NORTHERN TIER COUNTIES OF CENTRAL MN AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...MAY EXPERIENCE SOME ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. WL LET THE DAY SHIFT MAKE THE CALL WHETHER TO EXPAND THE FLOOD WATCH INTO OUR COUNTY WARNING AREA. .MSP...NONE
MNZ041>045-047>059-061-WIZ014>016-221700- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 550 AM CDT SAT JUN 22 2002 ...A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER... THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA INTO NORTHWEST WISCONSIN...GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM MONTEVIDEO...TO ELK RIVER...TO RICE LAKE AND LADYSMITH. WHETHER THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP IN THIS AREA WILL DEPEND ON THE EVENTUAL POSITION OF A WARM FRONT. THE FRONT WAS ACROSS SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INTO SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN THIS MORNING. AS THE FRONT TRACKS NORTHWARD...THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ON ITS NORTH SIDE. AT THIS POINT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO SPECIFY PRECISELY WHERE THE WARM FRONT WILL BE LATER THIS AFTERNOON. IT IS ENTIRELY POSSIBLE IT WILL REACH NORTHERN MINNESOTA AND FAR NORTHERN WISCONSIN LATER TODAY. IN THAT CASE...THE CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS CENTRAL MINNESOTA...TOWARD RICE LAKE AND LADYSMITH...WILL BE REDUCED.
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 173 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:30 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Main Creek overflowed its banks and produced water over a road, thereby closing it for a short while.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Wisconsin in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Wisconsin, June 2002
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