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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2000, 2:30 PM CDT for Iowa County, Lafayette County, Sauk County, Wisconsin. 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2000, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Iowa County, WI, Lafayette County, WI, Sauk County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 671 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 449 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 356 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KMKX 131928 FFWMKX WIC049-065-111-140130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE-SULLIVAN WI 230 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SAUK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN IOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 225 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE OCCURRING OVER THE AREA. * WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES ARE THAT 1 INCH TO 1.5 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAVE FALLEN SINCE NOON. THIS RAIN...AND THE ADDITIONAL EXPECTED RAINFALL...WILL CAUSE LOCAL STREAMS AND RIVERS TO RISE RAPIDLY AND OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE REEDSBURG...MINERAL POINT... DODGEVILLE AND DARLINGTON DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. LAT...LON 4359 8983 4256 8990 4253 9046 4360 9042 REM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 4:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Walworth | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Dane | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 6:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Walworth | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth | 29 min |
| Jun 13, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.