Alert archive / Wisconsin / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this flash flood warning at May 16, 1992, 6:50 PM CDT for Menominee County, Shawano County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1992, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1992, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Menominee County, WI, Shawano County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 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 162349 FFWGRB WIC078-115-170245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 650 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN ...MENOMINEE COUNTY...SHAWANO COUNTY NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING HEAVY RAINFALL HAVE TRACKED ACROSS SHAWANO AND MENOMINEE COUNTIES SINCE LATE THIS AFTERNOON. RADAR INDICATES MORE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAINS ARE MOVING INTO THAT AREA FROM THE WEST. SOME STREET FLOODING HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED IN SHAWANO COUNTY...AND MORE HEAVY RAINS WILL ONLY MAKE THE SITUATION WORSE. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE 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 QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. ISAACSON
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, May 16, 6:04 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
WIZ005-008-009-012-013-DDHHMM- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 605 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST WISCONSIN UNTIL 9 PM... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO RUMBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... ...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM FOR SHAWANO...OCONTO AND MENOMINEE COUNTIES... AT 555 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN FROM 60 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREEN BAY...OR NEAR MATTOON IN NORTHWEST SHAWANO COUNTY...TO 40 MILES NORTH OF GREEN BAY...OR NEAR PESHTIGO IN MARINETTE COUNTY. THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE TO THE EAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND SMALL HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES... SEEK INDOOR SHELTER. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE BEING PRODUCED BY A STORM CENTER IN NORTHERN MINNESOTA AND COLD FRONT MOVING INTO CENTRAL MINNESOTA EARLY THIS EVENING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...ARE LIKELY TONIGHT ACROSS THE REGION. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN MILD FOR MID MAY...DROPPING ONLY INTO THE 60S BEFORE MIDNIGHT. WINDS HOWEVER WILL REMAIN STRONG FROM THE SOUTH AT SPEEDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH. STAYED TUNED TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES...WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS. ISAACSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Juneau | 31 min |
| May 16, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Menominee | 45 min |
| May 16, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Shawano | 69 min |
| May 16, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette, Oconto | 55 min |
| May 16, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Menominee, Oconto | 69 min |
| May 16, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Shawano | 59 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Wisconsin, 1992Every flash flood warning in 1992
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.