Alert archive / Wisconsin / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this flash flood warning at Feb 20, 1994, 1:51 AM CST for Grant County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 20, 1994, 1:51 AM CST (07:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 20, 1994, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grant County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 276 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
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Feb 19, 8:24 PM CST, 5 hours 27 minutes before
ILZ009-015-016-024-IAZ065>068-078-088-089-099-200700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOLINE IL 824 PM CST SAT FEB 19 1994 ...RAIN WILL CONTINUE FOR MUCH OF THE NIGHT WITH MINOR FLOODING POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT... AT 820 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN EXPANDING AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WITHIN 100 MILES OF THE QUAD CITIES. THE RAIN WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR. WITH RAIN EXTENDING INTO MISSOURI...IT WILL LIKELY FALL MOST OF THE NIGHT. A HALF INCH TO AN INCH OF RAIN WILL BE COMMON OVER THE BI-STATE AREA WITH A FEW LOCATIONS RECEIVING UP TO AN INCH AND A HALF. DUE TO THE RECENT SNOWMELT AND TONIGHT`S RAINFALL...AREA STREAMS AND RIVERS WILL BE ON THE RISE. THIS WILL RESULT IN PONDING ON ROADS...WITH MINOR FLOODING NEAR STREAMS. PEOPLE LIVING NEAR STREAMS SHOULD MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS. J NOEL
Special weather statement, Feb 19, 8:25 PM CST, 5 hours 26 minutes before
ILZ009-015-016-024-IAZ065>068-078-088-089-099-200700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOLINE IL 824 PM CST SAT FEB 19 1994 ...RAIN WILL CONTINUE FOR MUCH OF THE NIGHT WITH MINOR FLOODING POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT... AT 820 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN EXPANDING AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WITHIN 100 MILES OF THE QUAD CITIES. THE RAIN WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR. WITH RAIN EXTENDING INTO MISSOURI...IT WILL LIKELY FALL MOST OF THE NIGHT. A HALF INCH TO AN INCH OF RAIN WILL BE COMMON OVER THE BI-STATE AREA WITH A FEW LOCATIONS RECEIVING UP TO AN INCH AND A HALF. DUE TO THE RECENT SNOWMELT AND TONIGHT`S RAINFALL...AREA STREAMS AND RIVERS WILL BE ON THE RISE. THIS WILL RESULT IN PONDING ON ROADS...WITH MINOR FLOODING NEAR STREAMS. PEOPLE LIVING NEAR STREAMS SHOULD MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS. J NOEL
Special weather statement, Feb 19, 11:33 PM CST, 2 hours 18 minutes before
ILZ009-015-016-024-IAZ065>068-078-088-089-099-200800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOLINE IL 1133 PM CST SAT FEB 19 1994 ...AREAS OF DENSE FOG AND RAIN WILL PLAGUE THE REGION... AT 1133 PM...DENSE FOG WAS BEING REPORTED ALONG AND TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF THE QUAD CITIES. THIS FOG WILL REDUCE THE VISIBILITY TO 1/4 MILE AT TIMES. IN ADDITION...A SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE BI-STATE FOR THE REST OF TONIGHT. IF YOU ARE TRAVELING TONIGHT...BE ALERT FOR DENSE FOG. SLOW DOWN IF YOU ENCOUNTER IT. FURTHER...IF YOU LIVE NEAR SMALL STREAMS OR CREEKS...BE ALERT FOR RISING WATERS. J NOEL
Special weather statement, Feb 19, 11:36 PM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes before
ILZ009-015-016-024-IAZ065>068-078-088-089-099-200800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOLINE IL 1133 PM CST SAT FEB 19 1994 ...AREAS OF DENSE FOG AND RAIN WILL PLAGUE THE REGION... AT 1133 PM...DENSE FOG WAS BEING REPORTED ALONG AND TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF THE QUAD CITIES. THIS FOG WILL REDUCE THE VISIBILITY TO 1/4 MILE AT TIMES. IN ADDITION...A SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE BI-STATE FOR THE REST OF TONIGHT. IF YOU ARE TRAVELING TONIGHT...BE ALERT FOR DENSE FOG. SLOW DOWN IF YOU ENCOUNTER IT. FURTHER...IF YOU LIVE NEAR SMALL STREAMS OR CREEKS...BE ALERT FOR RISING WATERS. J NOEL
Special weather statement, Feb 20, 1:00 AM CST, 51 minutes before
ILZ009-015-016-024-IAZ065>068-078-088-089-099-200800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOLINE IL 100 AM CST SUN FEB 20 1994 ...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE BISTATE THROUGH 4 AM... HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED ACROSS THE BISTATE TONIGHT...PUSHING STREAMS AND SMALL RIVERS TO BANKFULL AND BEYOND. AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE BISTATE THROUGH 4 AM. RAINFALL AMOUNTS THROUGH MIDNIGHT GENERALLY WERE IN THE HALF INCH TO ONE INCH RANGE. BURLINGTON IOWA REPORTED JUST OVER AN INCH THROUGH MIDNIGHT. HERE AT THE QUAD CITY AIRPORT...EIGHTY-FIVE HUNDRETHS OF AN INCH FELL THROUGH MIDNIGHT AND APPROXIMATELY A QUARTER OF AN INCH MORE THROUGH 1 AM. DENSE FOG ALSO REMAINED A PROBLEM ACROSS THE AREA...WITH VISIBILITIES DOWN BELOW A QUARTER OF A MILE IN SPOTS. VISIBILITIES HAD IMPROVED SOMEWHAT WHERE HEAVIER RAINS WERE FALLING. TRAVELERS ACROSS THE BISTATE SHOULD WATCH FOR AREAS OF LOWER VISIBILITY AND TRAVEL CAUTIOUSLY. PERSONS ALONG OR NEAR FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD WATCH FOR RISING WATER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF NECESSARY. T MEYER
Special weather statement, Feb 20, 1:07 AM CST, 44 minutes before
ILZ009-015-016-024-IAZ065>068-078-088-089-099-200800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOLINE IL 100 AM CST SUN FEB 20 1994 ...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE BISTATE THROUGH 4 AM... HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED ACROSS THE BISTATE TONIGHT...PUSHING STREAMS AND SMALL RIVERS TO BANKFULL AND BEYOND. AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE BISTATE THROUGH 4 AM. RAINFALL AMOUNTS THROUGH MIDNIGHT GENERALLY WERE IN THE HALF INCH TO ONE INCH RANGE. BURLINGTON IOWA REPORTED JUST OVER AN INCH THROUGH MIDNIGHT. HERE AT THE QUAD CITY AIRPORT...EIGHTY-FIVE HUNDRETHS OF AN INCH FELL THROUGH MIDNIGHT AND APPROXIMATELY A QUARTER OF AN INCH MORE THROUGH 1 AM. DENSE FOG ALSO REMAINED A PROBLEM ACROSS THE AREA...WITH VISIBILITIES DOWN BELOW A QUARTER OF A MILE IN SPOTS. VISIBILITIES HAD IMPROVED SOMEWHAT WHERE HEAVIER RAINS WERE FALLING. TRAVELERS ACROSS THE BISTATE SHOULD WATCH FOR AREAS OF LOWER VISIBILITY AND TRAVEL CAUTIOUSLY. PERSONS ALONG OR NEAR FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD WATCH FOR RISING WATER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF NECESSARY. T MEYER
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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.