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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this flash flood warning at May 23, 2004, 1:19 AM CDT for Dane County, Iowa County, Sauk 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
- May 23, 2004, 1:19 AM CDT (06:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2004, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Dane County, WI, Iowa County, WI, Sauk County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:23 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 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 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 230621
FFWMKX
WIC025-049-111-231015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
119 AM CDT SUN MAY 23 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
DANE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
IOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
SAUK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
* UNTIL 515 AM CDT
* AT 118 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY FROM THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH THE
AREA IN ADDITION TO MORE RAIN EXPECTED FROM STORMS ARRIVING FROM
THE WEST. THE STORMS WILL BE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
LAT...LON 4288 9042 4287 8952 4286 8905 4321 8901
4322 8987 4354 8962 4364 9022
$$
DAVIS2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KMKX 230642 FFSMKX WIC025-049-111-231015- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 119 AM CDT SUN MAY 23 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR DANE...IOWA AND SAUK COUNTIES CONTINUES UNTIL 515 AM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICATE AROUND 1 TO 1 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS SOUTHERN IOWA AND DANE COUNTIES WITH LESS RAINFALL SEEN SO FAR ACROSS SAUK COUNTY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARRIVING FROM THE WEST WILL BEGIN TO SOAK IOWA AND SAUK COUNTIES HEADING INTO DANE WITH TIME. SATURATED SOILS FROM DAYS AND DAYS OF RAIN WILL CAUSE THE RAINFALL TO GO IMMEDIATELY TO RUNOFF CREATING A FLASH FLOODING SITUATION. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. $$ DAVIS
000 WGUS73 KMKX 230758 FFSMKX WIC025-049-111-231015- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 300 AM CDT SUN MAY 23 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR DANE...IOWA AND SAUK COUNTIES CONTINUES UNTIL 515 AM CDT... THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE ACROSS IOWA...SAUK AND DANE COUNTIES EARLY THIS MORNING. DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICAT UP TO 1 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS PARTS OF DANE AND IOWA COUNTY. A LARGE AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING IN FROM THE WEST AND MAY ADD AN ADDITIONAL INCH OR SO OF RAIN IN SOME AREAS. SATURATED SOILS FROM DAYS AND DAYS OF RAIN WILL CAUSE THE RAINFALL TO GO IMMEDIATELY TO RUNOFF CREATING A FLASH FLOODING SITUATION. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. $$ DAVIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green, Lafayette | 59 min |
| May 23, 12:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Green, Lafayette | 4 hr |
| May 23, 12:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Green | 63 min |
| May 23, 2:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 50 min |
| May 23, 3:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane, Green, Iowa, Lafayette, Marquette and 1 more | 4 hr |
| May 23, 4:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green | 37 min |
| May 23, 5:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock | 51 min |
| May 23, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane | 51 min |
| May 23, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Jefferson | 48 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.