An upper level disturbance stalled over northwestern Minnesota during the early mornings hours of June 24th. This resulted in persistent showers and thunderstorms across portions of extreme northwest Minnesota.
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The episode as NWS FGF wrote it up.
An upper level disturbance stalled over northwestern Minnesota during the early mornings hours of June 24th. This resulted in persistent showers and thunderstorms across portions of extreme northwest Minnesota. Two to five inches of rain fell over a six to ten hour period, causing flooding issues across Kittson and Marshall counties.
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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 24, 9:10 AM CST, 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 1010 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 2014 .UPDATE... ISSUED AT 1010 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 2014 A BUSY MORNING WITH HEAVY RAIN/FLASH FLOODING ACROSS PORTIONS OF KITTSON/ROSEAU/MARSHALL COUNTIES. NEARLY STATIONARY WEAK SFC LOW NEAR THIEF RIVER FALLS WITH VERY SLOW MOVING MODERATE TO HEAVY SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED THUNDER ARCHING TO THE NORTH FROM GRAFTON TO HALLOCK TO SOUTHEAST OF MIDDLE RIVER. RADAR ESTIMATES 2 TO 4 INCHES HAS FALLEN FROM NEAR KENNEDY TO KARLSTAD TO NEAR MIDDLE RIVER AND THIS MATCHES RELATIVELY WELL WITH REPORTS FROM OBSERVERS. ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THIS AREA UNTIL 700 PM TONIGHT WITH REPORTS OF WATER FLOWING OVER SOME RURAL ROADS. IR SATELLITE SHOWS WARMING CLOUD TOPS AND LATEST RAP/HRRR SUGGEST THESE SHOWERS SHOULD WEAKEN AS THEY DRIFT SLOWLY TO THE SOUTH AND EAST WITH UPPER LOW TRAJECTORY. AS A RESULT...WILL MAKE SOME ADJUSTMENTS TO POPS GIVEN CURRENT RADAR...BUT KEEP GENERAL IDEA THIS AFTERNOON OF HIGH CHANCES FROM THE VALLEY INTO NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MN. OVERCAST SKIES WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES IN THE 60S TO NEAR 70 DEGREES ACROSS THE FAR SOUTH. WINDS WILL BE BREEZY AT TIMES FROM THE NORTH AS SFC LOW EXITS THE REGION. UPDATE ISSUED AT 704 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 2014 NO CHANGES PLANNED FOR THIS UPDATE. && .SHORT TERM...(TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY) ISSUED AT 300 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 2014 MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE WILL BE PCPN CHANCES THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE SHORT TERM PERIOD. MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT BUT THEY DO MAKE IT HARD TO KEEP ANY PERIOD DRY. AS FOR NOW...AN IFR CLOUD DECK CONTINUES TO MOVE SOUTH ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN ND. ODDLY ENOUGH THEY HAVE NOT SHOWN UP ON ANY OBSERVATIONS EAST OF THE RED RIVER ALTHOUGH THAT AREA HAS SEEN EXTENSIVE MID CLOUDS. FIGURING OUT THE EXPANSE OF THESE LOW CLOUDS THROUGH THE MORNING IS TOUGH BUT WILL KEEP WITH QUITE A BIT OF CLOUD COVER THROUGH THE DAY. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS A NICE CIRCULATION OVER THE NORTHERN RED RIVER VALLEY WHERE RADAR HAS SHOWN SOME LIGHT SHOWERS. SEEMS LIKE MOST OF THE SHOWERS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS CIRCULATION DIED OFF BY LATE EVENING. LIKE YESTERDAY EXPECT THIS CIRCULATION TO SLOWLY DROP SOUTH/SE AND KEEP SOME ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AROUND IN THE MORNING WITH MAYBE A RUMBLES OF THUNDER BY AFTERNOON. MUCH OF THE THUNDER THREAT PROBABLY HINGES ON WHETHER ANY AREAS WILL ACTUALLY SEE ANY SUN TODAY. AS IT LOOKS RIGHT NOW THAT MAY BE EAST OF THE RED RIVER WHERE THE LOW CLOUDS HAVE NOT MADE IT YET. WITH THE EXTENSIVE CLOUDS TEMPS WILL STAY ON THE COOL SIDE TODAY. COVERAGE OF ANY SHOWERS/ISOLATED THUNDER SHOULD DECREASE THIS EVENING ALTHOUGH DID NOT ELIMINATE THEM ALTOGETHER. SAME STORY GOES INTO WEDNESDAY AS MODELS STILL INDICATE SOME LIGHT SHOWER POSSIBILITIES IN THE MORNING WITH MAYBE A FEW AFTERNOON RUMBLES OF THUNDER. NOT A LOT TO HANG YOUR HAT ON BUT NEARLY EVERY MODEL SHOWS LIGHT PCPN. .LONG TERM...(WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY) ISSUED AT 300 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 2014 MODELS FINALLY DRY THINGS OUT FOR WED NIGHT BUT IT IS SHORT LIVED. LOW PRESSURE FORMS OVER WYOMING WITH RETURN FLOW SETTING UP OVER THE MIDWEST. THIS SETS THE STAGE FOR BETTER MOISTURE RETURN AND WARM ADVECTION ON THU. NOT A GOOD STRONG SIGNAL FROM THE MODELS SO WILL NOT DEVIATE MUCH FROM CONTINUITY WHICH HITS THE SOUTHWEST FA MORE INITIALLY. START TO SEE STRONGER WARM ADVECTION THU NIGHT ALONG WITH A DECENT 850MB JET. THEREFORE PCPN CHANCES SHOULD BEGIN TO INCREASE AGAIN. FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY...ACTIVE WEATHER CONTINUES AS MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT ON BRINGING A STRONG UPPER TROUGH OUT FROM THE ROCKIES INTO THE PLAINS FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. WITH THE STRONG SYNOPTIC SYSTEM COMING INTO THE REGION HIGH POPS CONTINUE TO BE A GOOD BET. TEMPS WILL DEPEND ON EXACTLY MUCH SUN WE GET BETWEEN PRECIP ROUNDS BUT FOR NOW CONTINUED TO KEEP READINGS NEAR TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE AVERAGE AS SOUTH WINDS BRING UP 850MB TEMPS IN THE MID TO UPPER TEENS C. BY SUNDAY...THE UPPER LOW CUTS OFF OVER SOUTHERN CANADA AND THEN WOBBLES OVER THAT REGION INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE MAIN ACTIVITY WILL BE TO OUR NORTH...BUT THINK THERE COULD BE PERIODIC SHORTWAVES MOVING THROUGH THAT ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO TIME THIS FAR OUT. THE LOW POPS THAT ALLBLEND GIVES FOR SUNDAY AND MONDAY CONTINUE TO SEEM REASONABLE. && .AVIATION...(FOR THE 12Z TAFS THROUGH 12Z WEDNESDAY MORNING) ISSUED AT 704 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 2014 MAIN ISSUE IS THE LOW CLOUDS THAT MOVED IN OVERNIGHT WHICH ARE ALREADY AFFECTING ALL OF THE TAF SITES. CEILINGS ARE A LITTLE BIT HIGHER OVER SOUTHERN MANITOBA SO WOULD EXPECT THEM TO RISE SOME TODAY BUT WHEN AND HOW MUCH IS ALWAYS A TOUGH THING TO DETERMINE. STUCK WITH THE LOWER CEILINGS THROUGH MUCH OF THE DAY FOR NOW AND LATER SHIFTS CAN AMEND IF BETTER TRENDS CAN BE ESTABLISHED. WOULD ALSO EXPECT THE SHOWERS OVER THE NORTHERN RED RIVER VALLEY TO DROP SOUTHWARD TOWARD THE NORTHERN TIER TAF SITES ALONG HIGHWAY 2 IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS AND BECOMING MORE LIKELY BY LATE MORNING INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON. WOULD EXPECT THEM TO DIMINISH BY LATE AFTERNOON IN THE EVENING BUT THEY MAY NOT GO AWAY ALTOGETHER. NORTH WINDS TODAY WILL DROP OFF LATER THIS EVENING. && .HYDROLOGY... ISSUED AT 300 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 2014 FARGO AND OSLO CONTINUE AT MODERATE FLOOD STAGE BUT SHOULD BE CRESTING SHORTLY. DILWORTH...HENDRUM...AND GRAND FORKS CONTINUE AT MINOR WITH NO CHANGES TO THE FORECAST IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. THERE ARE SOME SLOW MOVING SHOWERS ACROSS THE NORTHERN BASIN THAT ARE PRODUCING AN ESTIMATED ONE INCH OF RAIN IN THE PAST FEW HOURS. WILL HAVE TO MONITOR THE NORTHERN SITES ON THE RED FOR ANY RESPONSES TO RUN OFF. NEXT SIGNIFICANT CHANCE FOR PRECIPITATION THAT WILL IMPACT RIVER LEVELS WILL BE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. && .FGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ND...NONE. MN...NONE. && UPDATE...ROGERS SHORT TERM...GODON LONG TERM...GODON/JR AVIATION...GODON HYDROLOGY...JR
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 640 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 2014 MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-251145- WEST POLK-NORMAN-CLAY-KITTSON-ROSEAU-LAKE OF THE WOODS- WEST MARSHALL-EAST MARSHALL-NORTH BELTRAMI-PENNINGTON-RED LAKE- EAST POLK-NORTH CLEARWATER-SOUTH BELTRAMI-MAHNOMEN- SOUTH CLEARWATER-HUBBARD-WEST BECKER-EAST BECKER-WILKIN- WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-WADENA-GRANT-TOWNER-CAVALIER- PEMBINA-BENSON-RAMSEY-EASTERN WALSH-EDDY-NELSON-GRAND FORKS- GRIGGS-STEELE-TRAILL-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT-RICHLAND- WESTERN WALSH- 640 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND POSSIBLY A FEW AFTERNOON RUMBLES OF THUNDER ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH MID TO LATE WEEK. GREATER CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS ARRIVE BY FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
937 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0935 AM HEAVY RAIN 5 ESE KENNEDY 48.62N 96.81W
06/24/2014 M2.82 INCH KITTSON MN PUBLIC
MEASURED RAINFALL SINCE MIDNIGHT.
&&
GGUSTPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
941 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0900 AM HEAVY RAIN DONALDSON 48.57N 96.90W
06/24/2014 M3.52 INCH KITTSON MN MESONET
RWIS 24 HR RAINFALL.
&&
WBARRETTPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
956 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0910 AM HEAVY RAIN KARLSTAD 48.58N 96.52W
06/24/2014 M2.00 INCH KITTSON MN TRAINED SPOTTER
MEASURED RAINFALL SINCE MIDNIGHT.
&&
GGUSTPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
1002 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0910 AM HEAVY RAIN 1 S KARLSTAD 48.56N 96.52W
06/24/2014 M2.00 INCH KITTSON MN TRAINED SPOTTER
MEASURED RAINFALL SINCE MIDNIGHT.
0940 AM HEAVY RAIN 11 E NEWFOLDEN 48.35N 96.09W
06/24/2014 E2.00 INCH MARSHALL MN PUBLIC
0955 AM HEAVY RAIN KARLSTAD 48.58N 96.52W
06/24/2014 M3.00 INCH KITTSON MN TRAINED SPOTTER
MEASURED RAINFALL SINCE MIDNIGHT.
&&
GGUSTPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
1006 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1000 AM HEAVY RAIN 1 ENE KARLSTAD 48.58N 96.50W
06/24/2014 M2.42 INCH KITTSON MN MESONET
RAWS OBSERVED 24 HR RAINFALL.
&&
WBARRETTPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
1027 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1000 AM HEAVY RAIN KARLSTAD 48.58N 96.52W
06/24/2014 M3.00 INCH KITTSON MN PUBLIC
24 HR RAINFALL.
&&
WBARRETTThe Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 133 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:30 UTC.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Fields and farm access roads were flooded between Karlstad and Halma in western Deerwood Township.
Flooding occurred along the Middle River in the town of Middle River, causing a few streets to be closed and several spots to be sandbagged. Farm fields and farm access roads were also flooded near the Middle River in eastern Spruce Valley and western Cedar townships.
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