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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 1996, 4:07 PM CDT for Columbia 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, 4:07 PM CDT (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1996, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Columbia County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 150 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 172109 FFWMKE WIC021-172315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 407 PM CDT MON JUN 17 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...WESTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO TRACK FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST OVER WESTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY. AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE BETWEEN 4 AND 6 PM...AND WITH 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN LAST NIGHT...FLOODING IS IMMINENT. DON'T 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, Jun 17, 11:57 AM CDT, 4 hours 10 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 | 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, 4:46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.