Alert archive / Wisconsin / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2004, 6:51 PM CDT for Portage 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 16, 2004, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2004, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Portage County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 1732 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 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 162352 FFWGRB WIC097-170545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 651 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... PORTAGE COUNTY IN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 1245 AM CDT * AT 651 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN. THE STORMS WERE CENTERED NEAR STEVENS POINT. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 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. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY. SOME LOCATIONS WHICH ARE AT HIGH RISK OF FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...STEVENS POINT...NELSONVILLE...PERU...AMHERST...AMHERST JUNCTION AND ARNOTT. 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. LAT...LON 4463 8974 4427 8969 4427 8927 4467 8922 $$ ECKBERG
4 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KGRB 170046 FFSGRB WIC097-141-170545- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 742 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WOOD AND PORTAGE COUNTIES... AT 742 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF WOOD AND PORTAGE COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR WOOD AND PORTAGE COUNTIES UNTIL 1245 AM. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATED THAT UP TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN THIS AREA. NEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE OVER THE SAME GENERAL AREA. ANOTHER INCH OF RAIN IS LIKELY IN THIS AREA. SOME LOCATIONS WHICH ARE AT HIGH RISK OF FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE... STEVENS POINT...NELSONVILLE...AMHERST...AMHERST JUNCTION... BABCOCK...AND CUSTER. STREET FLOODING WAS REPORTING IN STEVENS POINT AROUND 7 PM. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. $$ ECKBERG
000 WGUS73 KGRB 170211 FFSGRB WIC097-141-170545- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 901 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WOOD AND PORTAGE COUNTIES... AT 901 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN. THE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS AT TIMES FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1245 AM THURSDAY MORNING FOR WOOD AND PORTAGE COUNTIES. IN PORTAGE COUNTY...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN FROM STEVENS POINT AND WHITING...EAST TO STOCKTON AND NELSONVILLE. THERE WERE NUMEROUS REPORTS OF STREET FLOODING IN THE CITY OF STEVENS POINT. IN WOOD COUNTY...RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY...SOUTH OF A PORT EDWARDS TO PITTSVILLE LINE. THE WOOD COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED NO FLOODING PROBLEMS AT THIS TIME. 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. $$ ECKBERG
000 WGUS73 KGRB 170331 FFSGRB WIC097-141-170545- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1030 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WOOD AND PORTAGE COUNTIES... AT 1030 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL WISCONSIN. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WOOD AND PORTAGE COUNTIES UNTIL 1245 AM. EVEN THE STORMS HAVE BEEN WEAKENING OVER THE PAST HOUR AND WILL CONTINUE TO WEAKEN THROUGH MIDNIGHT. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATED THAT UP TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN SOME LOCATIONS ACROSS CENTRAL WISCONSIN...WITH MOST RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN 2 AND 4 INCHES ACROSS SOUTHERN WOOD AND MUCH OF PORTAGE COUNTY. A RAINFALL REPORT OF 4.60 INCHES WAS RECORDED NEAR STEVENS POINT. SEVERAL HOMES IN STEVENS POINT REPORTED FLOODED BASEMENTS EARLIER THIS EVENING...WITH MANY STREETS BEING CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER. EVEN THOUGH THE RAIN IS TAPERING OFF...RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MIDNIGHT. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. $$ ECKBERG
000 WGUS73 KGRB 170426 FFSGRB WIC097-141-170445- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1125 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WOOD AND PORTAGE COUNTIES CANCELED... AT 1125 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS ARE STILL POSSIBLE THROUGH 1 AM...BUT THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED. THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH HAD BEEN IN EFFECT FOR WOOD AND PORTAGE COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELED. RAINFALL AMOUNTS VARIED GREATLY ACROSS WOOD AND PORTAGE COUNTIES. IN PORTAGE COUNTY...THE HEAVIEST RAINS FELL FROM STEVENS POINT EAST TO NELSONVILLE. THE STEVENS POINT POLICE DEPARTMENT INDICATED THAT THE FLOOD WATERS WERE SUBSIDING IN THE CITY. IN WOOD COUNTY...THE HEAVIEST RAINS FELL SOUTH OF A PORT EDWARDS TO DEXTERVILLE LINE. $$ ECKBERG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 6:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GRB | Wood | 6 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.