Alert archive / Wisconsin / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 1993, 10:58 AM CDT for Buffalo County, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 1993, 10:58 AM CDT (15:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 1993, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Buffalo County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 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 201558
FFWLSE
WIC011-121-210400-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
1058 AM CDT SUN JUN 20 1993
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...
...THE BUFFALO RIVER IN BUFFALO AND TREMPEALEAU COUNTIES
ACCORDING TO THE DIRECTOR OF EMERGENCY GOVERNMENT IN TREMPEALEAU
COUNTY...THE BUFFALO RIVER IN THE NORTHERN PART OF TREMPEALEAU
COUNTY WAS FLOODING AT OSSEO. WATER WAS COVERING ROADWAYS AND
THERE HAS BEEN SOME EVACUATIONS.
CITIES ALONG THE BUFFALO RIVER INCLUDE STRUM AND ELEVA OF TREMPEALEAU
COUNTY AND MONDOVI OF BUFFALO COUNTY. THE BUFFALO RIVER THENS
RUNS THROUGH BUFFALO COUNTY AND EMPTIES INTO THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
A FEW MILES NORTH OF ALMA.
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.
INGRAM
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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 20, 10:33 AM CDT, 25 minutes before
WIZ010-014-210200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 1030 AM CDT SUN JUN 20 1993 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR JACKSON COUNTY UNTIL 445 PM... THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY GOVERNMENT IN JACKSON COUNTY HAS REQUESTED THAT ALL PHONE LINES BE RESERVED FOR EMERGENCY USAGE ONLY. TV AND RADIO STATIONS.... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE IS IN CONSTANT CONTACT WITH JACKSON COUNTY OFFICIALS...AND WE WILL BE RELAYING INFORMATION TO YOU UNDER FLASH FLOOD STATEMENTS...AFOS HEADER MKEFFSLSE AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO. DO NOT CALL THEM AND DO NOT CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO GET THE INFORMATION TO YOU. YOUR COOPERATION IN THIS MA$TTER IS URGENTLY NEEDED AND APPRECIATED. INGRAM/BRUCE
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 10:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Jackson | 8 hr |
| Jun 20, 7:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Jackson | 9 hr |
| Jun 20, 4:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Jackson | 11 hr |
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.