Alert archive / Wisconsin / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 1998, 9:33 AM CDT for Columbia County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 15 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
- Aug 4, 1998, 9:33 AM CDT (14:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 1998, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 15 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 14:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 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
- 64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 725 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Aug 4, 6:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-042040- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 600 AM CDT TUE AUG 4 1998 ...NO RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY OR TONIGHT... ...FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN... DISCUSSION... A VERY MOIST ATMOSPHERE COMBINED WITH LOW PRESSURE MOVING FROM SOUTHERN IOWA TOWARD ILLINOIS WILL SET THE STAGE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHCENTRAL WISCONSIN TODAY AND TONIGHT. HOWEVER THE STORMS SHOULD NOT BE SEVERE...BUT MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. SPOTTER ACTION... STORM SPOTTER GROUPS WILL NOT BE NEEDED FOR ACTIVATION TODAY OR TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. HENTZd
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 6:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-042040- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 600 AM CDT TUE AUG 4 1998 ...NO RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY OR TONIGHT... ...FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN... DISCUSSION... A VERY MOIST ATMOSPHERE COMBINED WITH LOW PRESSURE MOVING FROM SOUTHERN IOWA TOWARD ILLINOIS WILL SET THE STAGE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHCENTRAL WISCONSIN TODAY AND TONIGHT. HOWEVER THE STORMS SHOULD NOT BE SEVERE...BUT MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. SPOTTER ACTION... STORM SPOTTER GROUPS WILL NOT BE NEEDED FOR ACTIVATION TODAY OR TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. HENTZd
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 9:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Columbia | 3 hr |
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.