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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 2002, 11:13 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 2002, 11:13 PM CDT (04:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2002, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Buffalo County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:16 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 4448 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1086 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.4
- Supercell composite
- 16.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KARX 260413 FFWLSE WIC011-260700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 1113 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BUFFALO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 200 AM CDT * AT 1106 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS NORTHERN BUFFALO COUNTY SINCE 9 PM. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN ACROSS ACROSS NORTHERN BUFFALO COUNTY THROUGH 2 AM WEDNESDAY MORNING. PEOPLE ALONG SPRING CREEK AND THE BUFFALO RIVER AND IT TRIBUTARIES SHOULD KEEP A CAREFUL EYE ON THE WATER LEVELS. * SOME LOCATIONS WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE... MAXVILLE... MISHA MOKWA... MONDOVI... URNE... A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IMMINENT. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FORGE FLOODED ROADWAYS BY FOOT OR AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS... ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 4459 9155 4445 9155 4444 9207 4459 9202 BOYNE
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark, Taylor | 67 min |
| Jun 25, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 66 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.