Alert archive / Wisconsin / Flash Flood Warnings in 1986
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this flash flood warning at Aug 6, 1986, 1:03 PM CDT for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 1986, 1:03 PM CDT (18:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 1986, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Milwaukee County, WI
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 163 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 752 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 061803 FFWMKE WIC079-062000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 103 PM CDT WED AUG 6 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN...MILWAUKEE AT 1 PM...RADAR SHOWED HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF MILWAUKEE COUNTY. NEARLY 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE THIS MORNING AT MITCHELL INTERNATIONAL AIPORT. HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE IN MILWAUKEE COUNTY THROUGH 3 PM CDT.. AND WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING DURING THIS TIME. IF YOU ARE IN YOUR CAR AND IT STALLS NEAR A RIVER..ABANDON IT AND FLEE TO HRIGHER GROUND. DONT ATTEMPT CROSSING SWOLLEN STREAMS. CURRENTS AND RAPIDLY RISING WATER CAN SWEEP YOU OFF YOUR FEET. STUREY
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 12:20 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 1215 PM WED AUG 6 1986 ...SOAKING RAIN ACROSS SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 1210 PM...LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WITH A FEW AREAS OF HEAVIER RAIN.. IN THUNDERSTORMS..COVERED MUCH OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. RAIN WAS LOCATED IN AN AREA FROM NEAR MADISON NORTHEAST THROUGH THE FOND DU LAC AND SHEBOYGAN AREAS..THEN SOUTH FROM SHEBOYGAN TO RACINE. FROM RACINE..RAIN EXTENDED WEST THROUGH JANESVILLE BACK TO MADISON. HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED IN SOUTHERN WAUKESHA AND SOUTHERN MILWAUKEE COUNTIES. AN OBSERVER ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE CITY OF BURLINGTON RECORDED /4.30/ INCHES OF RAIN THE PAST 24 HOURS. BURLINGTON SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT REPORTED /2.50/ INCHES THE PAST 24 HOURS. OTHER REPORTS FROM COOPERATIVE OBSERVERS WERE IN THE ONE HALF /0.50/ TO THREE QUARTERS /0.75/ INCH RANGE. RAIN WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. ^ RAIN WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS FROM SOUTH TO NORTH. HOWEVER..LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE IN THUNDERSTORMS. SOME PONDING OF WATER AND LOWLAND FLOODING WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE IN HEAVIER RAIN. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES). STUREY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 2:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 3 hr |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.