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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Milwaukee, WI

August 16, 1995Dodge County, Jefferson County, Waukesha County, Wisconsin

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1995-08-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 433 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°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 1995-08-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 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
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

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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.

JDH
Local 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.

JDH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 16, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXSauk32 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Wisconsin, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995

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.