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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Milwaukee, WI

June 19, 1993Clark County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 1993, 11:53 PM CDT for Clark County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 19, 1993, 11:53 PM CDT (04:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 1993, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Whole counties

County Clark County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 201 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 536 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMKE 200456
FFWMKE
WIC019-201100-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
1153 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...CLARK COUNTY
 
AT 1150 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED RAIN CONTINUING TO FALL IN
CLARK COUNTY. THE HEAVIER RAINS WERE IN THE WEST AND NORTH PARTS
OF THE COUNTY.
 
THE CLARK COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED MANY ROADS CLOSED DUE TO THE
HIGH WATER FROM THE RAINFALL TONIGHT.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS.  IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.
DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
 
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 RIhSING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.
 
HENTZ

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

Local storm report, Jun 19, 8:03 PM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before

STORM REPORT       ...CORRECTION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
800 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 1993

WW# 459 AND 461

TIME         EVENT

501 PM CDT   ROCK COUNTY...FUNNEL CLOUD AT MILTON MOVING NORTHWEST.

519 PM CDT   GREEN COUNTY...QUARTER SIZED HAIL EAST OF MONTICELLO BY
             SPOTTER CALL TO GREEN COUNTY SHERIFF.

536 PM CDT   ROCK COUNTY...GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL 5 MILES SOUTH OF
             EVANSVILLE.

551 PM CDT   GREEN COUNTY...FUNNEL CLOUD AT HIGHWAYS 81 AND COUNTY T
             SOUTH OF BRODHEAD.

613 PM CDT   GREEN COUNTY...60 MPH WINDS AND PENNY TO NICKEL SIZED HAIL
             JUST NORTH OF ATTICA.

617 PM CDT   ROCK COUNTY...POSSIBLE TOUCHDOWN SOUTH OF JANESVILLE BY
             THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EXTENSION.

629 PM CDT   ROCK COUNTY...FUNNEL CLOUDY REPORTED 5 MILES SOUTH OF
             MILTON BY FIREMEN.  TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS AND FREQUENT
             LIGHTNING ALSO REPORTED.

633 PM CDT   ROCK COUNTY...POWER OUTAGES...TORRENTIAL RAINS AND
             FREQUENT LIGHTNING IN EDGERTON.

650 PM CDT   DANE COUNTY...FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED AT HIGHWAYS 51 AND
              INTERSTATE 90 1 MILE NORTH OF STOUGHTON EXIT.

PRZEKURAT/PIERCE

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 8:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before

WIZ016-019-017-020-200200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
805 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 1993

AT 800 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH
VERY HEAVY RAIN NOW MOVING OUT OF WALWORTH AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES.
CONDITIONS ARE IMPROVING RAPIDLY AFTER THE RAIN MOVES OUT.  HERE AT THE
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE NEAR SULLIVAN A LITTLE SUNSHINE HAS
APPEARED ON THE HORIZON.

THE RAIN WILL END OVER WESTERN KENOSHA...RACINE...WAUKESHA AND DODGE
COUNTIES BY 830 PM...BUT WILL PERSIST FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO EAST
OF THESE AREAS.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AN OBSERVER IN
WHITEWATER REPORTED AN INCH OF RAIN BETWEEN 515 AND 730 PM THIS EVENING.
OUR OFFICE NEAR SULLIVAN RECIEVED /.62/ INCHES OF RAIN WHILE THE OFFICE
AT MITCHEL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT REPORTED /.60/ OF AN INCH.

FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS ON ROADWAYS AND ESPECIALLY NEAR SMALLER CREE
AND STREAMS IS STILL LIKELY WITH THE HEAVY RAINFALL.

DAVIS

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 8:06 PM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before

WIZALL-200200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
800 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 1993

...WISCONSIN PART OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 461 CANCELLED...

THE WISCONSIN PORTION OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 461 HAS NOW BEEN
CANCELLED.

WHILE AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MAY STILL BE POSSIBLE THIS
EVENING...THE MAIN THREAT WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST
WISCONSIN WILL BE HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODING.

HENTZ

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 8:24 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before

WIZ016-019-017-020-200200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
805 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 1993

AT 800 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH
VERY HEAVY RAIN NOW MOVING OUT OF WALWORTH AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES.
CONDITIONS ARE IMPROVING RAPIDLY AFTER THE RAIN MOVES OUT.  HERE AT THE
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE NEAR SULLIVAN A LITTLE SUNSHINE HAS
APPEARED ON THE HORIZON.

THE RAIN WILL END OVER WESTERN KENOSHA...RACINE...WAUKESHA AND DODGE
COUNTIES BY 830 PM...BUT WILL PERSIST FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO EAST
OF THESE AREAS.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AN OBSERVER IN
WHITEWATER REPORTED AN INCH OF RAIN BETWEEN 515 AND 730 PM THIS EVENING.
OUR OFFICE NEAR SULLIVAN RECIEVED /.62/ INCHES OF RAIN WHILE THE OFFICE
AT MITCHEL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT REPORTED /.60/ OF AN INCH.

FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS ON ROADWAYS AND ESPECIALLY NEAR SMALLER CREE
AND STREAMS IS STILL LIKELY WITH THE HEAVY RAINFALL.

DAVIS

Local storm report, Jun 19, 8:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT ... THIS IS A RETRANSMISSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
850 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 1993

PRELIMINARY SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS FROM WISCONSIN FOR JUN 19 1993...

TIME CDT     REPORT              LOCATION

0650 PM      WIND DAMAGE         3 TREES DOWN IN MILWAUKEE CO.
                                 CITY OF WAUWATOSA 61ST AND WAHSINGTON.

HENTZ

Local storm report, Jun 19, 8:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT ... THIS IS A RETRANSMISSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
850 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 1993

PRELIMINARY SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS FROM WISCONSIN FOR JUN 19 1993...

TIME CDT     REPORT              LOCATION

0650 PM      WIND DAMAGE         3 TREES DOWN IN MILWAUKEE CO.
                                 CITY OF WAUWATOSA 61ST AND WAHSINGTON.

HENTZ

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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.