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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Green Bay, WI

July 8, 2000Forest County, Langlade County, Oneida County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 2000, 3:42 AM CDT for Forest County, Langlade County, Oneida County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 2 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: Jul 8, 2000, 3:42 AM CDT (08:42 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2000, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Forest County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Oneida County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2293 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KGRB 080849
FFWGRB
WIC041-067-085-081100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
342 AM CDT SAT JUL 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN LANGLADE COUNTY IN WISCONSIN
  EASTERN ONEIDA COUNTY IN WISCONSIN
  FOREST COUNTY IN WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 600 AM CDT

* AT 342 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A CLUSTER 
  OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAINS OVER NORTHERN CENTRAL WISCONSIN
  NEAR RHINELANDER.  THEY WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT UP TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN
  THIS AREA...WITH ADDITIONAL RAIN POSSIBLE.  SOME LOCATIONS WHICH ARE AT
  HIGH RISK OF FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...RHINELANDER...MONICO...THREE 
  LAKES...CRANDON...SUMMIT LAKE...PICKEREL...AND WABENO.  ADDITIONAL 
  HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND QUICKLY. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY
FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS...ABANDON IT
IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER KGROUND.

TH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 4:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GRB	Brown, Manitowoc, Menominee, Oconto, Shawano	3 hr
Jul 8, 9:27 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GRB	Langlade, Menominee, Oconto, Shawano	2 hr
Jul 8, 10:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Brown, Outagamie, Shawano	42 min
Jul 8, 10:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GRB	Brown, Manitowoc	2 hr
Jul 8, 11:35 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GRB	Langlade, Menominee, Oconto, Oneida, Shawano	2 hr
Jul 8, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Oneida	59 min
Jul 8, 4:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GRB	Forest, Langlade, Oconto, Oneida	117 min
Jul 8, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Oneida	52 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.