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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Green Bay, WI

June 19, 1996Waupaca County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 1996, 1:48 PM CDT for Waupaca County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 19, 1996, 1:48 PM CDT (18:48 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Waupaca County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 69 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 12:00Z on 1996-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1996-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
523 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 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 191848
FFWGRB
WIC135-200055-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
148 PM CDT WED JUN 19 1996
 
...A FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WAUPACA COUNTY UNTIL 7 PM...

AT 130 PM...THE EMBARRASS RIVER NEAR EMBARRASS REMAINED ABOVE FLOOD
STAGE AT 10.8 FEET. THE RIVER LEVEL HAD REMAINED STEADY THROUGH THE
MORNING INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON. FLOOD STAGE IS 7 FFET.

THE ONLY NEW REPORT FROM THE WAUPACA COUNTY SHERIFF WAS THAT COUNTY Y
DID HAVE SOME WATER OVER THE ROAD AND SIGNS HAVE BEEN POSTED.

RIVERS AND CREEKS AROUND THE AREA REMAIN VERY HIGH SO PERSONS IN
WAUPACA COUNTY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR FLOODING CONDITIONS.

LM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 10:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGRBShawano8 hr
Jun 19, 6:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGRBWaupaca13 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Wisconsin, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.