Alert archive / Wisconsin / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 1995, 7:15 PM CDT for Dodge County, Jefferson County, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 1995, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1995, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dodge County, WI, Jefferson County, WI, Waukesha County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 433 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 536 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 170015 FFWMKE WIC027-055-133-170515- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 715 PM CDT WED AUG 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...DODGE COUNTY...JEFFERSON COUNTY...WAUKESHA COUNTY AT 710 PM DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICATED OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER SOUTHEAST JEFFERSON AND FAR WESTERN WAUKESHA COUNTYIES. AROUND 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN PARTS OF DODGE COUNTY AND THE REST OF JEFFERSON AND WESTERN WAUKESHA COUNTIES. HEAVY RAINS WILL STILL OCCURR IN PORTIONS OF DODGE JEFFERSON AND WAUKESHA COUNTIES. THIS WILL LIKELY TO CAUSE SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN URBAN AREAS. AS THE RAINFALL RUNS OFF INTO THE RIVERS THEY ARE EXPECTED TO RISE OUT OF THEIR BANKS. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD! 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, Aug 16, 6:52 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
655 PM CDT WED AUG 16 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
615-630 PM CITY OF JEFFERSON WI NUMEROUS TREES/PWR LNS DOWN
08/16/95 JEFFERSON CO. IN CITY OF JEFFERSON AND
A LARGE AREA SURROUNDING
> THE CITY.
JDHLocal storm report, Aug 16, 6:55 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
655 PM CDT WED AUG 16 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
615-630 PM CITY OF JEFFERSON WI NUMEROUS TREES/PWR LNS DOWN
08/16/95 JEFFERSON CO. IN CITY OF JEFFERSON AND
A LARGE AREA SURROUNDING
THE CITY.
JDHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sauk | 32 min |
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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.