Alert archive / Wisconsin / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 1996, 2:22 PM CDT for Sauk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 2 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, 2:22 PM CDT (19:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1996, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sauk County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 502 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 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 171926 FFWMKE WIC111-172130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 222 PM CDT MON JUN 17 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN ...SAUK COUNTY AT 220 AM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS IN SAUK COUNTY BETWEEN PLAINS AND BARABOO. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS WITH RADAR ESTIAMTES APPROACHING 2 INCHES DURING THE LAST HOUR. THIS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. ESPECIALLY WITH THE PREVIOPUS HEAVY RAIN. IN ADDITION DOPPLAR RADAR INDICATES IT MAY ALSO BE PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS ROADS COVERED WITH WATER. 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
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 11:57 AM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
WIZ013-018>022-030>72-172300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1155 AM CDT MON JUN 17 1996 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR CENTRAL...SOUTHERN...AND PARTS OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN INTO TONIGHT... WHILE HEAVY RAINS HAVE ENDED OVER MUCH OF THE WATCH AREA...THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR MORE HEAVY RAINS TO DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON. OVERNIGHT...UP TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN FELL OVER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN ...WITH 1 TO 3 INCH AMOUNTS COMMON OVER THE ENTIRE WATCH AREA. SOILS ARE SATURATED...AND ANY ADDITIONAL RAINS WILL QUICKLY RUN OFF INTO ALREADY SWOLLEN STREAMS AND RIVERS. THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY UNSTABLE...AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE ONCE AGAIN BEGINNING TO DEVELOP IN FAR SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN. PERSONS WITHIN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BROWNING
The 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 | Columbia, Dane, Sauk | 3 hr |
| 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 | 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
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.