Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS La Crosse, WI

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
613 AM CDT WED SEP 16 1992

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BUFFALO...TREMPEALEAU...AND JACKSON
COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 AM...

...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR LA CROSSE AND MONROE
COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 AM...

AT 610 AM...RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER MUCH
OF THE LA CROSSE AREA.  THE STRONGEST STORM...PRODUCING VERY
HEAVY RAIN WAS NEAR MONDOVI...WHERE 6.00 INCHES OF RAIN HAS
ALREADY FALLEN.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.  THEY
WILL CONTINUE IN THE MONDOVI AND ALMA AREAS THROUGH 700 AM.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE IN THE WHITEHALL AND ARCADIA
AREAS THROUGH 730 AM...AND IN THE LA CROSSE...BLACK RIVER FALLS
...AND SPARTA AREA THOUGH 800 AM.

MANY ROADWAYS ARE ALREADY COVERED WITH WATER.  MOTORISTS SHOULD
USE EXTREME CAUTION THIS MORNING.  DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS AREAS
WERE WATER IS MOVING RAPIDLY ACROSS THE ROAD.  THIS IS HOW MOST
DEATHS OCCUR IN FLASH FLOODING...

BRUCE
CORRECTED 700 PM TO 700 AM

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN
707 AM CDT WED SEP 16 1992

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS EXPIRED FOR SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL
MINNESOTA...

AT 650AM CDT...THE ROCHESTER COLOR WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
WIDESPREAD STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WERE OCCURRING EARLIER IN THE
MORNING...HAVE BECOME LESS INTENSE AND FEWER IN NUMBER. FOR THAT REASON
THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO
EXPIRE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE FOUND RIGHT OF A LINE FROM AUSTIN TO
LAKE CITY.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING HAS DIMINISHED...BUT SOME MINOR FLOODING
PROBLEMS MAY STILL OCCUR.
CALLS TO THE COUNTY SHERIFFS AROUND SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA REVEALED
NO MAJOR FLOODING WAS OCCURRING THIS MORNING...HOWEVER SOME
MINOR FLOODING PROBLEMS MAY BE STILL BE FOUND.

LOW-LYING ROADS...ESPECIALLY THOSE IN WABASHA AND GOODHUE COUNTIES
COUMLD STILL BE COVERED WITH WATER FROM THE HEAVY RAINS. IF YOU
ENCOUNTER ONE OF THESE WATER COVERED ROADS...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
IT. IT MAY WELL BE HIDING A DANGEROUS WASHOUT.

FOX

WIZ010-014-161400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
725 AM CDT WED SEP 16 1992

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BUFFALO...TREMPEALEAU...AND JACKSON
COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 AM...

...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR LA CROSSE AND MONROE
COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 AM...

AT 720 AM...RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS PARTS
OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN...AND SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA.
THE TRAILING EDGE OF THE PRECIPITAION EXTENDED FROM ALMA...TO
ROCHESTER...TO MASON CITY IOWA.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT
30 MILES AN HOUR...BUT THERE HAD BEEN SOME DECREASE IN INTENSITY.

IT NOW APPEARS THE RAIN WILL CONTINUE IN THE LA CROSSE AREA THROUGH
MID MORN~ING.  MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION AS MANY ROADWAYS ARE
COVERED WITH STANDING WATER.

BRUCE

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN
807 AM CDT WED SEP 16 1992

...A FEW LINGERING THUNDERSTORMS WERE TRACKING ACROSS SOUTHEAST
MINNESOTA...

AT 750AM CDT...THE ROCHESTER COLOR WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THAT MOST THE
OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAD CEASED ACROSS SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA...HOWEVER
SOME THUDERSTORMS REMAINED. SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE
LOCATED SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM WABASHA TO ROCHESTER TO AUSTIN.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. AT THIS PACE THE THUNDERSTORMS
WILL EXIT THE ROCHESTER AREA BEFORE 900AM CDT.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING...HEAVY RAINS...WIND GUSTS UP TO 35
MILES AN HOUR...AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING. SINCE 720AM THIS MORNING
...THE ROCHESTER AIRPORT PICKED UP AN ADDITIONAL HALF INCH OF RAIN
/.52/. THIS BRINGS THE OVERNIGHT RAINFALL TOTAL JUST OVER ONE AND A HALF
INCHES /1.52/.

PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE URGED TO HEAD INDOORS AND
REMAIN INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS BY.

FOX

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
730 AM CDT WED SEP 16 1992

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BUFFALO...TREMPEALEAU...AND JACKSON
COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 AM...

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR VERNON COUNTY UNTIL 1200 NOON...

...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR LA CROSSE AND MONROE
COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 AM...

AT 725 AM...RADAR INDICATES THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS PARTS
OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN...AND SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA.
THE STORMS HAVE DECREASED IN INTENSITY...BUT THERE FORWARD SPEED
HAD SLOWED TO AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR.

AS A RESULT...THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE LA CROSSE AREA
FOR MUCH OF THE MORNING.

BRUCE

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN
900 AM CDT WED SEP 16 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS LINGER IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA...

AT 855 AM RADAR SHOWED A 70 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
LOCATED EAST OF LINE FROM WABASHA TO AUSTIN. THEY EXTENDED SOUTHWEST
INTO NORTHCENTRAL IOWA AT FOREST CITY AND NORTHEAST INTO WEST CENTRAL
WISCONSIN NEAR DURAND.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL WERE
BETWEEN AUSTIN AND SPRING VALLEY. THE LINE OF SHOWERS WERE SLOWING
MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH...WHILE INDIVIDUAL STORM CELLS WERE
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

SOME THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE TO FOUNTAIN...
LANESBORO...AND PRESTON BY 930 AM. THE OTHER SHOWERS SHOULD END IN
SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA BY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON.

LATER THIS AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN
REDEVELOP IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA ALONG AN INCOMMING COLD
FRONT BY MID-AFTERNOON AND SPREAD INTO SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA LATER
THIS AFTERNOON.

KRUSE