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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Green Bay, WI

August 13, 1995Portage County, Wood County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this flash flood warning at Aug 13, 1995, 11:29 PM CDT for Portage County, Wood County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 13, 1995, 11:29 PM CDT (04:29 UTC)
Expired
Aug 14, 1995, 3:00 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Portage County, WI, Wood County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1995-08-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1788 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1995-08-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1788 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
758 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGRB 140445 COR
FFWGRB
WIC097-141-140800-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1129 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN

   ...PORTAGE COUNTY
   ...WOOD COUNTY

AT 1130 PM DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAD
FALLEN FROM THUNDERSTORMS EARLIER THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED
FROM PORTAGE AND WOOD COUNTIES WEST TO LA CROSSE AND WERE MOVING TO THE
EAST AT 35 MPH.
FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY TONIGHT.

HEAVY RAINS HAVE SATURATED THE GROUND AND ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL PRODUCE
MORE FLOODING.  PERSONS LIVING IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND.

PLH/JS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 13, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLincoln, Marathon76 min
Aug 13, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBWood76 min
Aug 13, 9:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBPortage63 min
Aug 13, 10:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMarathon, Wood45 min
Aug 13, 10:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBShawano, Waupaca67 min
Aug 13, 10:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBWaushara67 min
Aug 13, 10:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLanglade, Menominee55 min
Aug 13, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBPortage17 min
Aug 14, 12:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBAdams, Juneau64 min
Aug 14, 1:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGRBWaushara3 hr
Aug 14, 1:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBPortage, Waushara52 min
Aug 14, 1:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBWood40 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.