Alert archive / Wisconsin / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 1990, 5:25 PM CDT for Brown County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1990, 5:25 PM CDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1990, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brown 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 9 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 998 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 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 KGRB 222225
FFWGRB
WIC009-230030-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
525 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A URBAN AND SMALL
STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN
THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF WISCONSIN
BROWN
AT 515 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF
THE CITY OF GREEN BAY MOVING SLOWLY NORTH AND WILL DUMP UPWARDS
OF ANOTHER INCH OF WATER ACROSS THE CITY. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF ROADS
AND LOW LYING AREAS BEING FLOODED HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. THE FOX RIVER
NORTH OF WRIGHTSTOWN IN SOUTHERN BROWN COUNTY HAS FLOODED COUNTY
ROAD ZZ BY 8 FEET.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY.
VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED IMMEDIATELY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOOD WATERS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...
ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
DC/2224ZWhat 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, Jun 22, 1:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
WIZ008-008-009-012-013- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 125 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 1990 ...HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN BEGINNING TO CAUSE STREET FLOODING AND RUNOFF PROBLEMS... AT 120 PM CDT...HEAVY PRECIPITATION CONTINUED TO FALL OVER MUCH OF WISCONSIN AND WILL CONTINUE TO RAIN THRU THE AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. REPORTS FROM WINNEBAGO COUNTY INDICATE STREET FLOODING IS A PROBLEM. REPORTS OF OVER 2 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION HAVE FALLEN SO FAR IN MOST AREAS NEAR THE FOX CITIES. GREEN BAY RECORDED 1.46 INCHES OF PRECIP- ITATION AT 120 PM CDT. PERSONS LIVING AND TRAVELING IN THE FOX CITIES AREA AND MOST OF NORTH- EAST WISCONSIN CAN EXPECT SMALL STEAM FLOODING AND LOW LYING AREAS TO BE FLOODED. USE CAUTION IN THESE AREAS. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS. STONE
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 3:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
WIZ008-008-009-012-013- URBAN/SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 310 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT FOR MOST OF EAST CENTRAL AND A SMALL PART OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 310 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY TO MODERATE RAIN CONTINUING TO FALL OVER MOST OF WISCONSIN. CONSIDERABLE STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE FOX CITIES AND GREEN BAY. PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS ARE NEARING 3 INCHES IN SOME AREAS AND OVER 2 INCHES IN MOST. THE PRECIPTIATION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT. PERSONS LIVING IN THE FLOOD WATCH AREA SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION WHEN TRAVELING...ESPECIALLY THRU LOW LYING AREAS. NUMEROUS REPORTTS OF STALLED VEHICLES HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. SMALL STEAM FOODING CAN BE EXPECTED. STONE
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 4:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
WIZ008-008-009-012-013- URBAN/SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 415 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT... AT 415 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY TO MODERATE RAIN CONTINUING TO FALL OVER MOST OF WISCONSIN. CONSIDERABLE STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE FOX CITIES AND GREEN BAY. TOTAL PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS ARE OVER 3 INCHES IN SOME AREAS AND AT LEAST 2.5 INCHES FOR MOST AREAS. MODERATE TO HEAVY PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT. IT IS EASY TO UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FAST FLOWING WATER. WATER ONLY A FOOT DEEP WITH A GOOD CURRENT COULD SWEEP YOUR VEHICLE AWAY...SO BE VERY CAUTIOUS WHERE STREAMS ARE OVERFLOWING THEIR BANKS AND RUNNING OVER ROADWAYS...ESPECIALLY ON SECONDARY ROADS IN RURAL AREAS. STONE
Nearby
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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.