Alert archive / Wisconsin / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Green Bay, WI
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Lincoln, Marathon | 76 min |
| Aug 13, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Wood | 76 min |
| Aug 13, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Portage | 63 min |
| Aug 13, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marathon, Wood | 45 min |
| Aug 13, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Shawano, Waupaca | 67 min |
| Aug 13, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waushara | 67 min |
| Aug 13, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Langlade, Menominee | 55 min |
| Aug 13, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Portage | 17 min |
| Aug 14, 12:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Adams, Juneau | 64 min |
| Aug 14, 1:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GRB | Waushara | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Portage, Waushara | 52 min |
| Aug 14, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Wood | 40 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.