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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Milwaukee, WI

June 1, 2000Iowa County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT for Iowa 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Jun 1, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Iowa County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 157 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 KMKX 012247
FFWMKX
WIC049-020045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE-SULLIVAN WI
545 PM CDT THU JUN 1 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  IOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 545 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS OCCURRING OVER MUCH OF THE WARNING AREA.

* WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES ARE THAT 1 TO 1.5
  INCHES OF RAINFALL FELL BETWEEN 5 PM AND 545 PM OVER PARTS OF IOWA
  COUNTY.  ADDITIONAL EXPECTED RAIN WILL CAUSE LOCAL STREAMS AND
  RIVERS TO OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS.

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 GROUND. KEEP CHILDREN FROM PLAYING IN
FLOODED CULVERTS. THE RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY THEM
AWAY.

LAT...LON 4290 8991 4318 8989 4313 9041 4290 9040

HAHN/KAPELA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXIowa, Lafayette67 min
May 31, 10:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXGreen, Iowa, Lafayette4 hr
Jun 1, 12:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXSauk6 hr
Jun 1, 1:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXColumbia, Iowa6 hr
Jun 1, 2:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXColumbia, Dane60 min
Jun 1, 3:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDane, Jefferson42 min
Jun 1, 6:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXSauk3 hr
Jun 1, 9:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXJefferson61 min
Jun 1, 4:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXColumbia, Marquette54 min
Jun 1, 4:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXSauk54 min
Jun 1, 5:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXColumbia, Green Lake, Marquette, Sauk3 hr
Jun 1, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXGreen Lake55 min
Jun 1, 5:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXColumbia, Marquette, Sauk66 min
Jun 1, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDodge, Fond du Lac56 min
Jun 1, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXIowa66 min
Jun 1, 5:47 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXDodge, Fond du Lac58 min
Jun 1, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXLafayette65 min
Jun 1, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDane65 min
Jun 1, 6:16 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXWashington59 min
Jun 1, 6:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXDodge, Fond du Lac3 hr
Jun 1, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXGreen67 min
Jun 1, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDodge, Jefferson60 min
Jun 1, 6:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXOzaukee55 min
Jun 1, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDane34 min

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.