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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 1999, 11:01 AM CDT for Kenosha County, Racine County, Walworth 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 13, 1999, 11:01 AM CDT (16:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1999, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kenosha County, WI, Racine County, WI, Walworth County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:03 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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1027 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 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 131602 FFWMKE WIC059-101-127-131900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1101 AM CDT SUN JUN 13 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... KENOSHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN RACINE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN WALWORTH COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 200 PM CDT * AT 1055 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN OVER WALWORTH...RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES. THE AREA OF RAIN IS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH ABOUT 100 PM THIS AFTERNOON. * COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT INDICATES MANY AREAS THROUGHOUT WALWORTH... RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES ARE EXPERIENCING SOME FLOODING. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD! DAVIS
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 13, 6:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before
WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-131601- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 600 AM CDT SUN JUN 13 1999 ...HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK... ...FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN... THREAT... NO RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY OR TONIGHT. DISCUSSION... ALTHOUGH THE AIRMASS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN WILL REMAIN MOIST AND SOMEWHAT UNSTABLE...AND SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE...NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED. SPOTTER ACTION... STORM SPOTTER GROUPS WILL NOT BE NEEDED FOR ACTIVATION TODAY OR TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. MK
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 6:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before
WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-131601- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 600 AM CDT SUN JUN 13 1999 ...HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK... ...FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN... THREAT... NO RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY OR TONIGHT. DISCUSSION... ALTHOUGH THE AIRMASS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN WILL REMAIN MOIST AND SOMEWHAT UNSTABLE...AND SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE...NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED. SPOTTER ACTION... STORM SPOTTER GROUPS WILL NOT BE NEEDED FOR ACTIVATION TODAY OR TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. MK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 10:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 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.