Snow melt and rapid warming brought flooding to portions of central and southern Minnesota.
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The episode as NWS MPX wrote it up.
Snow melt and rapid warming brought flooding to portions of central and southern Minnesota.
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 Mar 19, 3:06 AM CST, 54 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 406 AM CDT MON MAR 19 2007 .DISCUSSION... IN THE SHORT TIME FRAME...COLD ADVECTION INDUCED STRATO CU IS WORKING SOUTHWARD BEHIND A COLD FRONT EXTENDING ACROSS EASTERN MINNESOTA INTO SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA. SHOWER ACTIVITY HAS MIGRATED INTO OUR FAR EASTERN WISCONSIN COUNTIES AND THESE SHOULD BE OUT OF THE CWA OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. BLUSTERY NORTHWEST SURFACE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE ENTIRE CWA SHORTLY AFTER SUNRISE AS A STRONG RISE TO FALL PRESSURE TENDENCY COUPLET WORKS TO ACCELERATE SURFACE FLOW. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE IS EXPECTED TO DROP ACROSS LAKE SUPERIOR INTO TUESDAY AS WE TRANSITION FROM WEST/NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT TO SOUTHWEST FLOW. BOTH THE GFS90 AND ECMWF PAINT A REMARKABLY SIMILAR PICTURE OF MAJOR JET FEATURES BY 00Z THURSDAY WITH A SOUTHERN JET MAX ARCING ACROSS BAJA INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS WITH A NORTHERN MAX ARCING FROM NORTHWEST MINNESOTA ACROSS JAMES BAY. THIS CONFIGURATION SUGGESTS COUPLING OF MAJOR JET FEATURES ACROSS MINNESOTA WITH A SUSTAINED PERIOD OF STRONG MOISTURE RETURN FROM THE GULF INTO THE UPPER MIDWEST. WE CARRY OUR HIGHEST POPS FOR WEDNESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND BRING UP DEWPOINTS INTO THE MID 40S AS OUR NEIGHBORS HAVE. HIGH TEMPERATURES RECOVER BACK INTO THE 50S BY WEDNESDAY AND REMAIN IN THE 50S THROUGH NEXT WEEKEND. && .MPX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MN...NONE. WI...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1231 PM CDT SUN MAR 18 2007 MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028- 191100- DOUGLAS-TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS- BENTON-SHERBURNE-ISANTI-CHISAGO-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA- KANDIYOHI-MEEKER-WRIGHT-HENNEPIN-ANOKA-RAMSEY-WASHINGTON- YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-CARVER-SCOTT-DAKOTA- REDWOOD-BROWN-NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-RICE-GOODHUE-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH- WASECA-STEELE-MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-POLK-BARRON-RUSK- ST. CROIX-PIERCE-DUNN-PEPIN-EAU CLAIRE- 1231 PM CDT SUN MAR 18 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A MIX OF RAIN AND SNOW IS EXPECTED ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN TONIGHT...WITH AROUND ONE INCH OF SNOW ACCUMULATION POSSIBLE ALONG AND NORTH OF A CAMBRIDGE TO CHIPPEWA FALLS WISCONSIN LINE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY ALREADY ELEVATED RIVER LEVELS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE ONCE AGAIN TOWARD MID WEEK AS NEAR TO ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES LEAD TO INCREASED SNOW MELT AND FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR ICE JAM DEVELOPMENT. THE POTENTIAL FOR MODERATE RAINFALL FROM TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT WILL ONLY EXACERBATE THE SITUATION...LEADING TO RUNOFF DUE TO A DEEP GROUND FROST REMAINING ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA...AND THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. THE GREATEST POTENTIAL WILL BE WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS A FRONT SWEEPS THROUGH THE AREA. AT THIS TIME...THE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE...BUT RAINFALL MAY BE HEAVY AT TIMES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS AND SNOWFALL OBSERVERS ARE URGED TO REPORT SNOWFALL AMOUNTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LS/KAT
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
High water from an ice jam along the Minnesota River undermined a railroad bridge over a slough near Gifford Lake, northeast of Jordan. Five boxcars fell when the bridge collapsed.
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