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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2000, 7:38 PM CDT for 4 counties in 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, 7:38 PM CDT (00:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2000, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jefferson County, WI, Milwaukee County, WI, Rock County, WI, Waukesha County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 1531 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1547 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KMKX 020040 FFWMKX WIC055-079-105-133-020430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE-SULLIVAN WI 738 PM CDT THU JUN 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ROCK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN WAUKESHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 1130 PM CDT * AT 738 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 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAVE FALLEN OR WILL FALL THIS EVENING THROUGH 11 PM. LOCAL STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY RISE RAPIDLY AND OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS. FLOODING OF URBAN AREAS IS HIGHLY 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 GROUND. KEEP CHILDREN FROM PLAYING IN FLOODED CULVERTS. THE RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY THEM AWAY. KAPELA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 7:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Dane, Green | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sheboygan | 54 min |
| Jun 1, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock | 66 min |
| Jun 1, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 58 min |
| Jun 1, 7:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 7:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Walworth | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth | 62 min |
| Jun 1, 8:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Columbia, Iowa, Lafayette, Sauk | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 56 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.