Alert archive / Wisconsin / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 1993, 4:48 PM CDT for Jackson County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 1993, 4:48 PM CDT (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1993, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 522 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 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 KLSE 192148
FFWLSE
WIC053-200345-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
448 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 1993
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
...JACKSON COUNTY
AT 450 PM...RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN
OVERSPREADING MUCH OF JACKSON COUNTY. THIS PRECIPITAION IS EXPECTED
TO CONTINUE FOR MOST OF THE EVENING.
CREEKS AND SMALL STREAMS ARE ALREADY OVER THEIR BANKS THROUGHOUT
JACKSON COUNTY...AND MANY ROADS ARE BEING CLOSED. JACKSON COUNTY
CIVIL DEFENSE REQUESTS AS LITTLE TRAVEL AS POSSIBLE IN AND THROUGH
THE COUNTY.
CITIES AND TOWNS IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE BLACK RIVER FALLS...HATFIELD
...HIXTON...TAYLOR...AND MELROSE.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO AZLLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE 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, Jun 19, 1:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
WIZ010-014-200600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 145 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR VERNON AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM... ...URBAN/SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR JACKSON COUNTY TONIGHT... AT 145 PM...RADAR INDICATED LIGHT SHOWERS IN THE VICINITY OF ROCHESTER...WITH HEAVIER SHOWERS AND POSSIBLY A FEW THUNDERSTORMS IN THE VICINITY OF WATERLOO. THE SHOWERS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND COULD BEGIN TO AFFECT PRAIRIE DU CHIEN AROUND 300 PM. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. STREAMS AND CREEKS ARE RUNNING VERY HIGH ACROSS ALL OF JACKSON COUNTY AND THIS HAS RESULTED IN SOME ROAD CLOSURES AND FLOODED BASEMENTS. HIGH WATER CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS ALL OF JACKSON COUNTY THROUGH 900 PM AS FIELDS CONTINUE TO DRAIN. RIVER LEVELS WILL ALSO BE RISING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS A GOOD POSSIBILITY ACROSS WESTERN WISCONSIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MOVE INDOORS WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF RISING WATER THREATENS YOUR LOCATION. INGRAM
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 2:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
WIZ010-014-192100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 235 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR VERNON AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM... ...URBAN/SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR JACKSON COUNTY TONIGHT... AT 230 PM...RADAR INDICATED SOME NEWLY DEVELOPED SHOWERS AND THUNDER- STORMS JUST TO THE WEST OF LA CROSSE ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. THESE SHOWERS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT THE CITY OF LA CROSSE BETWEEN 230 AND 300 PM. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING BETWEEN WATERLOO AND THE IOWA/MINNESOTA BORDER...ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST. THESE COULD BEGIN TO AFFECT AREAS SOUTH OF LA CROSSE ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AROUND 300 PM. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS A GOOD POSSIBILITY ACROSS WESTERN WISCONSIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MOVE INDOORS WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF RISING WATER THREATENS YOUR LOCATION. INGRAM
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 3:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
WIZ010-014-192300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 345 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 1993 ...MORE RAIN HEADED FOR THE LA CROSSE AREA... AT 340 PM...RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST IOWA. THEY WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE SPREADING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. AT THIS TIME...NO SEVERE WEATHER IS OCCURING WITH THESE STORMS...BUT THE ARE PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. PEOPLE IN THE LA CROSSE AREA WHO LIVE IN LOW LYING AREAS OR NEAR SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RISING WATER. JACKSON COUNTY REMAINS UNDER AN UXRBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY THROUGH TONIGHT. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN AND NORTHEAST IOWA BUT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE CITY OF LA CROSSE. BRUCE
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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.