Alert archive / Wisconsin / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this flash flood warning at Mar 28, 2004, 1:21 PM CST for Langlade County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 6 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
- Mar 28, 2004, 1:21 PM CST (19:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2004, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Langlade County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 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 281931 FFWGRB WIC067-290115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 121 PM CST SUN MAR 28 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN LANGLADE COUNTY IN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 715 PM CST * DUE TO THE RECENT RAPID SNOWMELT...THE SPRING BROOK IN THE CITY OF ANTIGO HAS OVERRUN ITS BANKS AND HAS PRODUCED SIGNIFICANT FLOODING. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS WILL AFFECT THE ANTIGO AREA THIS AFTERNOON TO FURTHER AGGRAVATE THE PROBLEM. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS 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. THE LANGLADE COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT HAS REPORTED HIGHWAY 45 CLOSED SOUTH OF ANTIGO. MANY OTHER ROADS ARE CLOSED AS WELL. THE SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REQUESTS MOTORISTS TO AVOID THIS AREA. LAT...LON 4515 8930 4509 8907 4523 8897 4525 8926 $$ HELMAN
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KGRB 290104 FFSGRB WIC067-290145- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 705 PM CST SUN MAR 28 2004 ...SIGNIFICANT FLOODING CONTINUES IN THE CITY OF ANTIGO... AT 630 PM CST...THE LANGLADE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGER CONTINUED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT FLOODING NEAR SPRING BROOK IN THE CITY OF ANTIGO. HIGHWAY 45 WAS COMPLETELY COVERED BY WATER AT 10TH AVENUE...AND A SMALL PORTION OF THE CITY HAD BEEN EVACUATED. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WILL SHIFT EAST OF THE AREA BY 9 PM. HOWEVER...RUNOFF FROM EARLIER RAINS COMBINED WITH CONTINUED SNOWMELT WILL CAUSE THE FLOODING TO CONTINUE INTO MONDAY. THE CONDITIONS WHICH GENERATED THE FLOODING WILL START TO IMPROVE LATE TONIGHT AND MONDAY. COLDER TEMPERATURES SHOULD SLOW THE SNOW MELT. ALTHOUGH SOME PRECIPITATION IS POSSIBLE MONDAY...IT WILL BE LIGHT AND SHOULD FALL IN THE FORM OF SNOW. SINCE PEOPLE IN THE AFFECTED AREA ARE ALREADY WELL AWARE OF THE DANGER...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AS SCHEDULED AT 715 PM. A FLOOD WARNING...WHICH IS USED TO HANDLE LONGER TERM FLOODING ALONG STREAMS AND RIVERS...IS IN EFFECT FOR LANGLADE COUNTY. THAT WARNING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THE FLOODING SUBSIDES. $$ SKOWRONSKI/JML WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/GRB
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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.