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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS La Crosse, WI

June 1, 2000Crawford County, Richland County, Vernon County, Wisconsin; Fillmore County, Houston County, Mower County, Minnesota

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2000, 10:00 AM CDT for Crawford County, Richland County, Vernon County, Wisconsin; Fillmore County, Houston County, Mower County, Minnesota. It was in force for 6 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, 10:00 AM CDT (15:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS La Crosse, WI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Fillmore County, MN, Houston County, MN, Mower County, MN, Crawford County, WI, Richland County, WI, Vernon County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 226 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2000-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 824 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2000-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 179 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
824 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-177 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1154 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
179 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
206 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KARX 011502
FFWARX
MNC045-055-099-WIC023-103-123-012100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
1000 AM CDT THU JUN 1 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A

* FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  RICHLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN
  VERNON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN
  CRAWFORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN
  FILLMORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA
  MOWER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA
  HOUSTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED NUMEROUS ROADS CLOSED...BRIDGES
  OUT...WATER OVER ROADWAYS...AND MUD SLIDES THROUGHOUT PORTIONS OF
  THE WARNED COUNTIES.

* SOME LOCATIONS WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED...
  PRESTON
  SPRING VALLEY
  CALEDONIA
  GAYS MILLS
  VICTORY

NO ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS ARE ANTICIPATED THROUGH THE EARLY
AFTERNOON HOURS...ALTHOUGH MORE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE
POSSIBLE LATE.

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS THAT WERE IN EFFECT
THROUGH 10 AM THIS MORNING.

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FORGE FLOODED ROADWAYS BY FOOT OR AUTOMOBILE. BE
AWARE OF CLOSED ROADS AND BRIDGES.

RIECK

&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXGrant56 min
May 31, 9:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningARXGrant4 hr
May 31, 10:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXGrant64 min
May 31, 11:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXCrawford, Vernon65 min
May 31, 11:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningARXVernon3 hr
Jun 1, 12:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXRichland69 min
Jun 1, 12:22 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningARXCrawford, Richland6 hr
Jun 1, 1:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningARXGrant4 hr
Jun 1, 2:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningARXVernon3 hr
Jun 1, 6:02 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningARXCrawford, Richland, Vernon4 hr
Jun 1, 1:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXTrempealeau60 min
Jun 1, 2:19 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningARXJackson, Trempealeau3 hr
Jun 1, 2:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXJackson, La Crosse, Monroe53 min
Jun 1, 3:10 PM CDTTornado WarningARXMonroe35 min
Jun 1, 3:35 PM CDTTornado WarningARXJuneau55 min
Jun 1, 3:48 PM CDTTornado WarningARXMonroe27 min
Jun 1, 4:04 PM CDTTornado WarningARXAdams56 min
Jun 1, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXRichland, Vernon66 min
Jun 1, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXJuneau60 min
Jun 1, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXGrant38 min
May 31, 9:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXMower53 min
May 31, 9:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXFillmore57 min
May 31, 10:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXHouston55 min
May 31, 10:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXOlmsted, Winona67 min
May 31, 11:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXMower59 min
May 31, 11:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningARXMower5 hr
Jun 1, 1:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningARXFillmore5 hr
Jun 1, 3:52 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningARXMower2 hr
Jun 1, 4:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningARXHouston95 min
Jun 1, 2:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXFillmore58 min
Jun 1, 2:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXHouston63 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Wisconsin, 2000Flash Flood Warnings in Minnesota, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.