Alert archive / Wisconsin / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 1998, 1:19 AM CDT for Lafayette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 4 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 28, 1998, 1:19 AM CDT (06:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1998, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lafayette County, WI
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:22 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 4171 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1286 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 280618 FFWMKE WIC049-065-111-281015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 119 AM CDT SUN JUN 28 1998 * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR IOWA COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN LAFAYETTE COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN SAUK COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 515 AM CDT AT 115 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ANOTHER LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHCENTRAL WISCONSIN. THE LINE OF STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO IOWA...LAFAYETTE AND SAUK COUNTIES BY 130 AM WHERE UP TO 2 INCHES AND LOCALLY MORE OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED BETWEEN 130 AM AND 530 AM CDT. THIS AREA HAS ALREADY RECEIVED BETWEEN 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL FROM EARLIER STORMS. LEAVE FLOOD PRONE AND LOW LYING AREAS AND SEEK HIGH GROUND IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. TH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sauk | 93 min |
| Jun 27, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Iowa | 91 min |
| Jun 27, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Marquette | 91 min |
| Jun 27, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green Lake | 78 min |
| Jun 27, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock | 64 min |
| Jun 28, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth | 65 min |
| Jun 28, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 60 min |
| Jun 28, 1:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Iowa, Sauk | 4 hr |
| Jun 28, 1:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa, Lafayette | 61 min |
| Jun 28, 2:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Dane, Green, Rock | 4 hr |
| Jun 28, 2:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Green | 59 min |
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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.