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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS La Crosse, WI

June 16, 2004Adams County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2004, 7:37 PM CDT for Adams 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 16, 2004, 7:37 PM CDT (00:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2004, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS La Crosse, WI
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Adams County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:39 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 143 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2004-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1281 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2004-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1281 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
990 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KARX 170037
FFWARX
WIC001-170330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
737 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ADAMS COUNTY IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 737 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF MONROE
  CENTER...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH OF FRIENDSHIP. THE STORMS
  PRODUCING THE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE NEARLY STATIONARY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...NEW ROME.

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 4406 8982 4410 8998 4411 9000 4416 8995
      4417 8990 4419 8989 4420 8990 4424 8987
      4424 8959 4421 8959

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS73 KARX 170239
FFSARX
WIC001-170330-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
939 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR
ADAMS COUNTY...

AT 939 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES
TO RAIN...OCCASIONALLY HEAVY AT TIMES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH
ACROSS ADAMS COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT BETWEEN 3 AND 
8 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS NORTHERN AND EASTERN ROME 
TOWNSHIP AND NORTHEAST LEOLA TOWNSHIP. BOTH OF THESE TOWNSHIPS
ARE LOCATED IN FAR NORTHERN ADAMS COUNTY. THIS RAIN WILL LIKELY 
AFFECT RESIDENTS ALONG FOURTEEN MILE AND SPRING BRANCH CREEKS.

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 4406 8982 4410 8998 4411 9000 4416 8995
      4417 8990 4419 8989 4420 8990 4424 8987
      4424 8959 4421 8959

$$

BOYNE

The office that day

Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 7:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningARXMonroe3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Wisconsin, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.