Alert archive / Wisconsin / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 2004, 4:43 PM CDT for Winnebago 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
- Jun 15, 2004, 4:43 PM CDT (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2004, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Winnebago County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 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 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 956 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 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 152145 FFWGRB WIC139-160330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 443 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR A POSSIBLE DAM FAILURE FOR... WINNEBAGO COUNTY IN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * THERE HAVE BEEN TWO PUBLIC REPORTS OF A PARTIAL DAM FAILURE OF THE EUREKA DAM ON THE FOX RIVER. THE DAM IS IN EUREKA...WHICH IS 14 MILES WEST OF OSHKOSH. * SOME LOCATIONS WHICH ARE AT RISK OF FLOODING INCLUDE EUREKA AND OMRO. LOW-LYING AREAS ADJACENT TO THE RIVER ARE ESPECIALLY VULNERABLE TO FLOODING. PEOPLE IMMEDIATELY DOWNSTREAM FROM THE DAM SHOULD TAKE ACTION NOW MONITOR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR POSSIBLE EVACUATION INSTRUCTIONS. BE PREPARED TO ACT QUICKLY IF AN EVACUATION ORDER IS ISSUED OR FLOODING IS OBSERVED. LAT...LON 4394 8899 4389 8885 4404 8855 4414 8871 $$ MG
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KGRB 152352 FFSGRB WIC139-160330- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 650 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WINNEBAGO COUNTY... EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON THERE WERE TWO PUBLIC REPORTS OF A PARTIAL DAM FAILURE OF THE EUREKA DAM ON THE FOX RIVER... WHICH IS 14 MILES WEST OF OSHKOSH. AS OF 645 PM...THE WINNEBAGO COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT COULD NOT CONFIRM THAT THE DAM BROKE OR WAS STILL INTACT DUE TO FLOODED ROADWAYS LEADING UP TO THE DAM. BASED ON CURRENT INFORMATION FROM THE RIVER FORECAST CENTER... IF THE DAM DID FAIL RIVER LEVELS WOULD RISE LESS THAN A FOOT. THE ADDITIONAL RISE IN THE WATER LEVELS WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING IN EUREKA AND OMRO. THE WINNEBAGO COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICE REPORTED THAT SEVERAL HOMES WERE EVACUATED IN EUREKA. IN OMRO...A CITY PARK AND A PRIVATE BOAT HOUSE WERE UNDER WATER. THE ADDITIONAL RISE IN THE WATER LEVELS WILL CAUSE THE RIVER TO APPROACH HOMES IN OMRO. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING AT OMRO AND EUREKA. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. $$ ECKBERG
000 WGUS73 KGRB 160125 FFSGRB WIC139-160145- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 825 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR WINNEBAGO COUNTY... EARLIER REPORTS OF A PARTIAL DAM FAILURE OF THE EUREKA DAM ON THE FOX RIVER...WHICH IS 14 MILES WEST OF OSHKOSH HAS NOT OCCURRED. AN AREAL FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWESTERN WINNEBAGO COUNTY NEAR THE FOX RIVER. THE WINNEBAGO COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICE REPORTED THAT SEVERAL HOMES WERE EVACUATED IN EUREKA. IN OMRO...A CITY PARK AND A PRIVATE BOAT HOUSE WERE UNDER WATER. ANY ADDITIONAL RISE IN THE WATER LEVELS WILL CAUSE THE RIVER TO APPROACH HOMES IN OMRO. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING ALONG THE FOX RIVER. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. $$ ECKBERG
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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.