Alert archive / Wisconsin / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 2003, 6:09 AM CDT for Oneida County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 96 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 2003, 6:09 AM CDT (11:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2003, 7:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 96 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Oneida County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -464 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1415 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 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 KGRB 261111 FFWGRB WIC085-261245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 609 AM CDT SAT JUL 26 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN ONEIDA COUNTY IN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 745 AM CDT * AT 609 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN. THE STORMS WERE CENTERED NEAR RHINELANDER. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATED THAT UP TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN THIS AREA. NEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE OVER THE SAME GENERAL AREA. ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IS LIKELY IN THIS AREA. SOME LOCATIONS WHICH ARE AT HIGH RISK OF FLASH INCLUDE WOODBORO...RHINELANDER AND MONICO. 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. LAT...LON 4574 8988 4560 8988 4548 8907 4572 8909 $$ KIECKBUSCH
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KGRB 261136 FFSGRB WIC085-261245- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 636 AM CDT SAT JUL 26 2003 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN ONEIDA COUNTY... AT 626 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN. THE STORMS EXTENDED FROM HEAFFORD JUNCTION TO RHINELANDER TO MONICO...AND WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN ONEIDA COUNTY UNTIL 745 AM CDT. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATED THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN WEST OF RHINELANDER. THE RHINELANDER WEATHER OBSERVING STATION REPORTED 2.82 INCHES SINCE 500 AM CDT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ONEIDA COUNTY...PERHAPS BRINGING AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN. SOME LOCATIONS WHICH ARE AT HIGH RISK OF FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...RHINELANDER...MONICO AND PELICAN LAKE. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. IN ADDITION TO THE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. $$ KIECKBUSCH
000 WGUS73 KGRB 261229 FFSGRB WIC085-261245- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 723 AM CDT SAT JUL 26 2003 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ONEIDA COUNTY... AT 723 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN OVER FAR SOUTHERN ONEIDA COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE NEAR LENNOX...OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CRANDON AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR ONEIDA COUNTY UNTIL 745 AM. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATED THAT UP TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER SOUTHERN ONEIDA COUNTY. DO NOT DRIVE OVER WATER COVERED ROADS. BE AWARE THAT SOME EROSION MAY HAVE OCCURRED ON AREA SECONDARY ROADS $$ HELMAN
000 WGUS73 KGRB 261251 FFSGRB WIC085-261315- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 747 AM CDT SAT JUL 26 2003 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ONEIDA COUNTY NO LONGER IN EFFECT... AT 747 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS OVER FAR SOUTEAST ONEIDA COUNTY AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE STORMS WHICH PRODUCED THE HEAVIER RAINFALL HAVE MOVED SOUTH OF THE AREA. THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH HAD BEEN IN EFFECT FOR ONEIDA COUNTY HAS EXPIRED AND IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATED THAT 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS UP TO 5 INCHES HAD FALLEN IN THIS AREA. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF MINOR WASHOUTS ON AREA SECONDARY ROADS. $$ HELMAN
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.