Alert archive / Wisconsin / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this flash flood warning at Dec 11, 1996, 7:11 AM CST for Kenosha County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 3 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
- Dec 11, 1996, 7:11 AM CST (13:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 11, 1996, 10:00 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kenosha County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:10 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 673 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 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 KMKE 111313 FFWMKE WIC059-111505- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 711 AM CST WED DEC 11 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...EASTERN KENOSHA COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN EASTERN KENOSHA CO(UNTY BETWEEN 530 AND 7 AM. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS ARE LIKELY BETWEEN 7 AND 8 AM. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. BROWNING
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
Special weather statement, Dec 11, 6:31 AM CST, 40 minutes before
WIZ072-111335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 631 AM CST WED DEC 11 1996 A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENOSHA COUNTY BETWEEN 630 AND 730 AM. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. MORNING COMMUTERS SHOULD ALLOW EXTRA TIME DUE TO GREATLY REDUCED VISIBILITIES IN VERY HEAVY RAIN. BROWNING
Special weather statement, Dec 11, 6:33 AM CST, 38 minutes before
WIZ072-111335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 631 AM CST WED DEC 11 1996 A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENOSHA COUNTY BETWEEN 630 AND 730 AM. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. MORNING COMMUTERS SHOULD ALLOW EXTRA TIME DUE TO GREATLY REDUCED VISIBILITIES IN VERY HEAVY RAIN. BROWNING
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.