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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 1996, 3:00 AM CDT for Columbia County, Dane County, Sauk 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
- Jun 17, 1996, 3:00 AM CDT (08:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1996, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Columbia County, WI, Dane County, WI, Sauk County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:02 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 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 840 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 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 170801
FFWMKE
WIC045-105-021-025-049-065-111-171100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
300 AM CDT MON JUN 17 1996
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
...GREEN COUNTY...ROCK COUNTY...DANE COUNTY......IOWA COUNTY...
LAFAYETTE COUNTY...SAUK COUNTY...COLUMBIA COUNTY
HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT ACROSS
SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN HAS RESULTED IN 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN.
THIS HAS LEFT THE GROUND SATURATED AND THERE HAS ALREADY BEEN
REPORTS OF SOME MINOR FLOODING OF STREETS AND BUSINESSES.
AT 3 AM...WEATHER RADAR AND SATELLITE PICTURES SHOWED ANOTHER
ROUND OF HEAVY RAIN HEADING INTO SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN FROM
NORTHEAST IOWA. THESE ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS WILL PROBABLY RESULT
IN SOME FLASH FLOODING EAlRLY THIS MORNING.
DON'T DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS! MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS
OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
MEADE/DAVISThe office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sauk | 62 min |
| Jun 17, 1:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock | 39 min |
| Jun 17, 3:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Green, Rock | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 3:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Iowa, Lafayette | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 2:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Sauk | 2 hr |
| Jun 17, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sauk | 2 hr |
| Jun 17, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Sauk | 29 min |
| Jun 17, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Columbia | 50 min |
| Jun 17, 4:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Columbia | 2 hr |
| Jun 17, 4:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Sauk | 119 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.