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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 2003, 3:55 PM CDT for Jefferson 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 as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2003, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Jefferson County, WI, Waukesha County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 209 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 952 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 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 032057 FFWMKX WIC055-133-040100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 355 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...LAKE MILLS...JEFFERSON...FORT ATKINSON WAUKESHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WAUKESHA...WALES...PEWAUKEE... OKAUCHEE LAKE...OCONOMOWOC...HARTLAND...DELAFIELD * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 355 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 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN FELL DURING THE PAST HOUR. THIS RAIN...AND THE ADDITIONAL 2 INCHES EXPECTED...WILL CAUSE LOCAL STREAMS AND RIVERS TO RISE RAPIDLY AND OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS. TRAVEL ALONG INTERSTATE 94 WILL BE ESPECIALLY TREACHEROUS IN THE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. 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 4317 8896 4290 8893 4288 8822 4315 8822 $$ DAVIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia | 59 min |
| Aug 2, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge | 67 min |
| Aug 3, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Washington | 32 min |
| Aug 3, 2:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane | 25 min |
| Aug 3, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia | 30 min |
| Aug 3, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Washington | 37 min |
| Aug 3, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 61 min |
| Aug 3, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock | 45 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.