Heavy rains across the central portion of Minnesota during the last week of May pushed the Mississippi River slightly out of its banks in early June at Wabasha (Wabasha County).
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Heavy rains across the central portion of Minnesota during the last week of May pushed the Mississippi River slightly out of its banks in early June at Wabasha (Wabasha County).
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 La Crosse, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 4, 2:10 AM CST, 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 310 AM CDT MON JUN 4 2012 .SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT 310 AM CDT MON JUN 4 2012 MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE IS ON PRECIPITATION CHANCES THROUGH TUESDAY. 06Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE OVER WESTERN IOWA. RADAR SHOWING SCATTERED SHOWERS OUT AHEAD OF THE LOW OVER THE FORECAST AREA IN AREA OF 305K ISENTROPIC UPGLIDE AS NOTED ON THE 03.03Z RAP. 03.00Z MODELS OFFER SIMILAR SOLUTIONS THROUGH THE PERIOD...WITH THE ONLY DIFFERENCES IN POSITION OF WEAK FORCING SIGNALS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. IN THE NEAR TERM...LOW OVER WESTERN IOWA WILL CONTINUE TO SINK SOUTHEASTWARD THIS MORNING. RAP ALSO INDICATES THE WEAK ISENTROPIC LIFT OVER THE AREA WILL ALSO SLIDE SOUTHEAST THIS MORNING. DID PLACE A LOWER END PROBABILITY ACROSS THE SOUTH THROUGH 15Z TO COVER THE DEPARTING SHOWERS. OTHERWISE...LATER TODAY ANOTHER WEAK SHORTWAVE WILL DROP SOUTHWARD INTO NORTHERN WISCONSIN. SOME VERY WEAK 850-700MB QG CONVERGENCE WILL INTERACT WITH MOST UNSTABLE CAPES OF 500 J/KG-1000 J/KG TO RESULT IN SOME SHOWERS AND PERHAPS THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHEST PROBABILITIES WILL BE ACROSS THE NORTHEAST SECTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA. DID CONTINUE CHANCES INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS TONIGHT AS WELL...WITH PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES AFTER THAT. DEPENDING UP HOW MUCH RAIN FALLS TODAY AND HOW MUCH CLEARING OCCURS OVERNIGHT TONIGHT WILL HAVE TO WATCH FOR A FOG POTENTIAL. ANOTHER WAVE DROPS SOUTHWARD ACROSS WISCONSIN TUESDAY/TUESDAY NIGHT...BUT VORTICITY IS MORE CHANNELED WITH THIS FEATURE. ONCE AGAIN MOST UNSTABLE CAPES IN THE 500-1000 J/KG RANGE WILL BE PRESENT DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. THE COMBINATION OF THESE WILL RESULT IN ISOLATED TO SCATTERED CONVECTION ONCE AGAIN...WITH THE HIGHER PROBABILITIES ACROSS WISCONSIN. BOTH THE NAM AND GFS CONTINUE SOME WEAK CHANNELED VORTICITY OVER THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY...BUT WEAK SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE OVER THE AREA AND THUS SHOULD MITIGATE ANY TYPE OF PRECIPITATION...WITH THE HIGH THEN STRENGTHENING OVER THE AREA WEDNESDAY NIGHT. .LONG TERM...THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY 310 AM CDT MON JUN 4 2012 UPPER RIDGE BUILDS INTO THE AREA ON THURSDAY FOR DRY WEATHER. AS THE RIDGE MIGRATES EASTWARD THE REMAINDER OF THE PERIOD A SERIES OF SHORTWAVES ROUNDING THE CREST OF THE RIDGE WILL SERVE TO FLATTEN IT OUT...ALLOWING FOR A SURFACE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE PLAINS TOWARDS THE AREA. INCREASING MOISTURE TRANSPORT AHEAD OF IT WILL RESULT IN SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM CHANCES...ESPECIALLY FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. OTHERWISE...TEMPERATURES WILL WARM THROUGH THE PERIOD...WITH MID AND UPPER 80S LIKELY BY SUNDAY FOR AFTERNOON HIGHS. && .AVIATION...THROUGH 06Z TUESDAY 1145 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2012 SCATTERED SHOWERS CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA LATE THIS EVENING AHEAD OF A WEAK AREA OF LOW PRESSURE OVER WESTERN IOWA. THE LOW HAS BEEN MEANDERING AROUND THIS EVENING AND HAS ONLY MOVED FROM THE VICINITY OF KSUX TO NEAR KDNS. THIS PATTERN HAS BEEN SIMILAR TO WHAT THE NAM HAS BEEN SHOWING FOR SEVERAL RUNS NOW AND THE 04.00Z RUN CONTINUE TO SHOW THIS SLOW SOUTHEAST MOVEMENT THROUGH MONDAY. AS THE LOW DRIFTS TO THE SOUTHEAST...THE ISENTROPIC UP GLIDE OF 2 TO 3 UBAR/S ON THE 305K WILL SINK SLOWLY AWAY FROM THE AREA AS WILL THE MOISTURE TRANSPORT AT 850 MB. THIS SHOULD EVENTUALLY PUT AN END TO THE SHOWERS BUT WILL BE MORE PESSIMISTIC AND HOLD ON TO VCSH FOR MUCH OF THE NIGHT. THE CLOUDS HAVE BEEN SLOW TO MOVE EASTWARD AS WELL SHOWING A MORE SOUTHEAST MOVEMENT IN THE UPPER LEVEL FLOW. WILL ALSO HOLD ON TO THE VFR CEILING WITH THESE CLOUDS FOR MUCH OF THE NIGHT. THIS SHOULD LIMIT THE POTENTIAL FOR THE ANY FOG AT EITHER SITE...BUT WITH KRST BEING CLOSER TO THE EDGE OF THE CLOUDS WILL HOLD ON TO A TEMPORARY PERIOD OF MVFR VISIBILITY WITH SOME FOG LATE TONIGHT. EXPECT TO SEE MORE DIURNAL CLOUDS FORM AGAIN LATE MONDAY MORNING OR EARLY IN THE AFTERNOON UNDER THE CYCLONIC FLOW ALOFT. COULD BE SOME ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AS WELL BUT WILL NOT INCLUDE ANY IN THE FORECAST AT THIS TIME. && .ARX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... 310 AM CDT MON JUN 4 2012 WI...NONE. MN...NONE. IA...NONE. && SHORT TERM...RABERDING LONG TERM...RABERDING AVIATION...04
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 801 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2012 IAZ008>011-018-019-029-030-MNZ079-086>088-094>096-WIZ017-029-032>034- 041>044-053>055-061-041100- ADAMS-ALLAMAKEE-BUFFALO-CHICKASAW-CLARK-CLAYTON-CRAWFORD-DODGE- FAYETTE-FILLMORE-FLOYD-GRANT-HOUSTON-HOWARD-JACKSON-JUNEAU-LA CROSSE- MITCHELL-MONROE-MOWER-OLMSTED-RICHLAND-TAYLOR-TREMPEALEAU-VERNON- WABASHA-WINNESHIEK-WINONA- 801 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA...NORTHEAST IOWA...AND SOUTHWEST INTO CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL LINGER INTO MONDAY. NONE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. .EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATION... NO WEBINAR IS SCHEDULED. 04
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rains across the central portions of Minnesota during the last of week of May pushed the Mississippi River out of its banks in Wabasha. The river crested just over the flood stage during the morning of June 4th.
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