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Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this flash flood warning at Sep 11, 2000, 9:25 PM CDT for Milwaukee 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 11, 2000, 9:25 PM CDT (02:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 2000, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Milwaukee County, WI, Waukesha County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 406 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -427 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1060 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KMKX 120225 FFWMKX WIC079-133-120600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE-SULLIVAN WI 925 PM CDT MON SEP 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN WAUKESHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 100 AM CDT * AT 925 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 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN FELL BETWEEN 630 PM AND 925 PM CDT ACROSS EASTERN WAUKESHA AND THE NORTHERN HALF OF MILWAUKEE COUNTY. THIS RAIN...AND THE ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES EXPECTED...WILL CAUSE LOCAL STREAMS AND RIVERS TO RISE RAPIDLY AND OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT WATER WAS COVERING SOME ROADS IN BROWN DEER TO THE DEPTH OF 2 TO 4 FEET. POOR WATER DRAINAGE WAS ALSO NOTED IN PARTS OF EASTERN WAUKESHA COUNTY. 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 4315 8830 4285 8824 4286 8786 4318 8790 KAPLEA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 65 min |
| Sep 11, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth | 67 min |
| Sep 11, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sauk | 60 min |
| Sep 11, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 62 min |
| Sep 11, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock | 60 min |
| Sep 11, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 58 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.