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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jul 2, 2000, 8:49 PM CDT for Milwaukee County, Racine County, Waukesha County, 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
- Jul 2, 2000, 8:49 PM CDT (01:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2000, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Milwaukee County, WI, Racine County, WI, Waukesha County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 756 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KMKX 030151 FFWMKX WIC079-101-133-030545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE-SULLIVAN WI 849 PM CDT SUN JUL 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WAUKESHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN RACINE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 1245 AM CDT * AT 849 PM CDT...FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN *ENTER LOCATION* * WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES ARE THAT 2 INCHES...WITH LOCALLY 3 INCHES...OF RAINFALL FELL DURING THE PAST 4 TO 6 HOURS. THIS RAIN...AND THE ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN EXPECTED...WILL CAUSE LOCAL STREAMS AND RIVERS TO RISE RAPIDLY AND OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. KEEP CHILDREN FROM PLAYING IN FLOODED CULVERTS. THEY CAN BE QUICKLY WASHED AWAY IN THE RAPIDLY FLOWING WATERS. DAVIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa | 59 min |
| Jul 2, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 39 min |
| Jul 2, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane | 46 min |
| Jul 2, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 57 min |
| Jul 2, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington | 61 min |
| Jul 2, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha | 36 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.