Alert archive / Wisconsin / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this flash flood warning at Sep 16, 1992, 5:47 AM CDT for Jackson County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 16, 1992, 5:47 AM CDT (10:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 1992, 9:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 950 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KLSE 161047
FFWLSE
WIC011-053-121-161445-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
547 AM CDT WED SEP 16 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
...BUFFALO COUNTY...JACKSON COUNTY...TREMPEALEAU COUNTY
RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE VERY HEAVY RAIN FALLING OVER WEST
CENTRAL WICONSIN FROM LA CROSSE NORTHWARD. BUFFALO COUNTY REPORTS
6.00 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AT MONDOVI...AND THE RAIN WILL
CONTINUE OVER MUCH OF THIS AREA THROUGH 800 AM. FLOODING IS ALSO
BEING REPORTED AROUND ARCADIA AND BLACK RIVER FALLS.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
BRUCE
NNNNWhat 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, Sep 16, 3:18 AM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
MNZ019-160900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 317 AM CDT WED SEP 16 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER A PORTION FO SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA... AT 307AM CDT...THE ROCHESTER COLOR WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THAT SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED RAPIDLY OVER NORTHERN MOWER AND SOUTHERN DODGE COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA. THIS WOULD BE NEAR THE CITIES OF HAYFIELD AND BLOOMING PRARIE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE INTO THE CITY OF STEWARTVILLE AND SOUTHERN ROCHESTER BY 325AM CDT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT AND DEADLY LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINS...AND SMALL HAIL. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE ADVISED TO SEEK SHELTER INDOORS ASD THESE STORMS APPROACH. FOX
Special weather statement, Sep 16, 3:45 AM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
MNZ019-160930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 347 AM CDT WED SEP 16 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OCCURING AROUND ROCHESTER... AT 341AM CDT...THE ROCHESTER COLOR WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THAT SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED OVER THE SOUTHERN FRINGE OF ROCHESTER. SOME CITIES BEING AFFECTED BY THESE THUNDERSTORMS INCLUDE...ROCHESTER... STEWARTVILLE...AND ROCK DELL. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. SHORTLY AFTER 330AM CDT...THE WINDS AT THE ROCHESTER AIRPORT CLIMBED TO 51 MILES AN HOUR AND VERY HEAVY RAINS BEGAN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT AND DEADLY LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINS...AND SMALL HAIL. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE ADVISED TO SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AS THESE STORMS APPROACH. FOX
Special weather statement, Sep 16, 5:29 AM CDT, 18 minutes before
WIZ010-014-161230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 530 AM CDT WED SEP 16 1992 AT 520 RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...WERE OCCURING OVER MUCH OF THE LA CROSSE AREA. STREET FLOODING WAS BEING REPORTED IN ARCADIA...AS PUMPS CAN NOT KEEP UP WITH THE RAINFALL. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE AROUND THE LA CROSSE AREAS THOUGH 800 AM. THE STORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE STIL`L OVER SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA...AND THEY WILL BE MOVING EAST INTO WESTERN WISCONSIN. BRUCE
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 5:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Buffalo, Trempealeau | 4 hr |
| Sep 16, 8:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Vernon | 4 hr |
| Sep 16, 9:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Jackson, Trempealeau | 4 hr |
| Sep 16, 11:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Vernon | 117 min |
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.