Flood, Steele
- When
- June 10, 12:00 AM CST to June 12, 11:59 PM CST
- Where
- Steele forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 44.022, -93.226 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood in Minnesota, June 10 to 12, 2004
Heavy rainfall across the Straight River basin upstream of Owatonna on the 9th caused high water to flow through much of Steele County between the 10th and the 12th. Moderate flooding along the Straight River led to several road closures across the county including County Road 18 and 22nd Avenue Southwest.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS MPX wrote it up.
Heavy rainfall across the Straight River basin upstream of Owatonna on the 9th caused high water to flow through much of Steele County between the 10th and the 12th. Moderate flooding along the Straight River led to several road closures across the county including County Road 18 and 22nd Avenue Southwest. In addition, 20 basements were flooded in Owatonna, mainly in the Crossroads development. Two families were displaced by flood damage and were sheltered by the Red Cross.
What forecasters said that day
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 9, 3:30 PM CST, 8 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 3:30 PM CST, 8 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 430 PM CDT WED JUN 9 2004 .DISCUSSION... COLD FRONT SERVING AS A FOCUS FOR SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO SAG SWARD THROUGH THE EVENING. EXPECTING SHRA OVER SE ZONES TO TAPER OFF WITH ONLY WIDELY SCATTERED SHRA POSSIBLE IN FAR S ZONES AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON AS BDRY BECOMES STALLED OVER CENTRAL IA. ON THU AFT...BDRY PUSHES BACK NE AS WARM FRONT. BETWEEN THU NIGHT AND FRI NIGHT IT WILL TRAVEL FROM FAR SW ZONES INTO E ZONES AND WILL SERVE AGAIN AS A FOCUS FOR WIDESPREAD CONVECTION. QPF WITH SYSTEM EXPECTED TO AVG AROUND 0.75 TO 1 INCH WITH ISOLATED AMTS WITH STRONG CONVECTION /PRECIP WATER VALUES UP TO 1.8 INCHES FRI AFT/ COULD GET OVER 2.5 INCHES. STILL TOO EARLY TO SAY WHERE THE HEAVIEST RAIN WILL FALL BUT WILL NEED TO MONITOR ANY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS WHERE FLOODING OCCURRED THIS MORNING. ALSO...CWA OUTLOOKED FOR SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WX FRI DUE TO POSSIBLE SUPERCELL DEVELOPMENT. BUFKIT SOUNDING FCSTS AT MSP FRI AFT SHOW CAPE NEAR 3800 J/KG AND LIS NEAR -10 WITH SIG SHEAR IN WIND PROFILE DUE TO VICINITY OF WARM FRONT. CONVECTION CLEARS FROM W TO E FRI NIGHT AS NEG TILTED TROF AXIS SHIFTS INTO WESTERN GREAT LAKES. DRY FCST FOR SAT WITH LESS HUMID AIR COMING IN BEHIND EXITING SYSTEM. HOWEVER CLDS WILL BE SLOW TO LEAVE DUE TO UPPER LVL LOW LINGERING OVER N MN SAT. LONGER TERM...SAT NITE THROUGH WED...WILL MAINTAIN CHC STORMS SAT NIGHT AS UPPER TROUGH HANGS AROUND A LITTLE WHILE. TRANSITION TO WLY FLO AFTER TROF AND THERE ARE SOME HINTS OF ANOTHER SHORT WAVE RIDING THE RIDGE LATE MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY. GFS ENSEMBLE MEAN FOR 250MB HINTS AT THIS WITH APPARENT JET MAX MOVING IN. NOT MUCH VARIATION IN INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS PER THE SPAGHETTI PLOTS. ECMWF AND UK ALSO DEPICT SOMETHING ALONG THESE LINES. && .MPX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MN...NONE. WI...NONE. && MARGRAF/TDK NOTE...THE AWIPS IDENTIFIER FOR THE CODED CITIES FORECAST ISSUED BY THE NWS TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN WILL CHANGE FROM CCFMSP TO CCFMPX EFFECTIVE AT 1200 UTC ON JUN 15, 2004, WEATHER PERMITTING. THE WMO HEADER FOR THIS PRODUCT WILL REMAIN FPUS43 KMPX
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 9:03 PM CST, 2 hours 57 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1003 PM CDT WED JUN 9 2004 MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028-101003- ANOKA-BARRON-BENTON-BLUE EARTH-BROWN-CARVER-CHIPPEWA-CHISAGO-DAKOTA- DOUGLAS-DUNN-EAU CLAIRE-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-GOODHUE-HENNEPIN-ISANTI- KANABEC-KANDIYOHI-LAC QUI PARLE-LE SUEUR-MARTIN-MCLEOD-MEEKER- MILLE LACS-MORRISON-NICOLLET-PEPIN-PIERCE-POLK-POPE-RAMSEY-REDWOOD- RENVILLE-RICE-RUSK-SCOTT-SHERBURNE-SIBLEY-ST CROIX-STEARNS-STEELE- STEVENS-SWIFT-TODD-WASECA-WASHINGTON-WATONWAN-WRIGHT-YELLOW MEDICINE- 1003 PM CDT WED JUN 9 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA...AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS A STRONG COLD FRONT PLOWS INTO THE STATE. VERY WARM AND HUMID AIR WILL PRECEDE THE FRONT... ESPECIALLY OVER THE SOUTH AND WEST CENTRAL PORTIONS OF MINNESOTA. MORE HEAVY RAIN COULD FALL...ADDING TO FLOODING PROBLEMS ONGOING ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TONIGHT. RAH
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 10, 2004
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 10, 2004
- Hail in Kansas, June 10, 2004
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Illinois, June 10 to 11, 2004
- Flash Flooding in Texas, June 10 to 13, 2004
- Tornado in Illinois, June 10, 2004
- Tornado in Illinois, June 10, 2004
- Tornado in South Dakota, June 10, 2004
- Flash Flood and Hail in South Dakota, June 10, 2004
- Heavy Rain in Puerto Rico, June 10, 2004
- Damaging Winds and Heavy Rain in Iowa, June 10, 2004
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, June 10, 2004
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, June 2004
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5406154.