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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS La Crosse, WI

June 1, 2000Grant County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2000, 1:55 AM CDT for Grant 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 1, 2000, 1:55 AM CDT (06:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2000, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI
Area: Whole counties

County Grant County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 140 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1028 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -177 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 935 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 245 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 339 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 10.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KARX 010658
FFWARX
WIC043-011100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
155 AM CDT THU JUN 1 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 600 AM CDT

* AT 155 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THAT 2 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN ACROSS THE COUNTY DURING THE
  NIGHT. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS BEGINING TO MOVE BACK INTO THE
  COUNTY AND IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS.

AS OF 130 AM...LAW ENFORCEMENT INDICATED THAT SEVERAL AREA ROADS
WERE HAVING FLOODING PROBLEMS.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO
FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

NELSON

The office that day

Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Grant	56 min
May 31, 9:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	Grant	4 hr
May 31, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Grant	64 min
May 31, 11:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Crawford, Vernon	65 min
May 31, 11:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	Vernon	3 hr
Jun 1, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Richland	69 min
Jun 1, 12:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	Crawford, Richland	6 hr
Jun 1, 2:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	Vernon	3 hr
Jun 1, 6:02 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	Crawford, Richland, Vernon	4 hr
Jun 1, 10:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	Crawford, Richland, Vernon	6 hr
Jun 1, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Trempealeau	60 min
Jun 1, 2:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	Jackson, Trempealeau	3 hr
Jun 1, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Jackson, La Crosse, Monroe	53 min
Jun 1, 3:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Monroe	35 min
Jun 1, 3:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Juneau	55 min
Jun 1, 3:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Monroe	27 min
Jun 1, 4:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Adams	56 min
Jun 1, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Richland, Vernon	66 min
Jun 1, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Juneau	60 min
Jun 1, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Grant	38 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.