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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS La Crosse, WI

June 7, 2005Clark County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 7, 2005, 7:54 PM CDT for Clark 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 7, 2005, 7:54 PM CDT (00:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2005, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Clark County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:53 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 191 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1819 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1256 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 2.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KARX 080054
FFWARX
WIC019-080345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
754 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 750 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED
  TO DETECT THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH ACROSS
  SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 3 TO 
  5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN JUST NORTH OF HATFIELD AND
  EAST OF MERRILLAN.

* THIS WILL AFFECT RESIDENTS ALONG THE BLACK RIVER...ARNOLD
  CREEK...AND WEDGES CREEK IN SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY.

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. REMEMBER...TURN AROUND DONT
DROWN.

LAT...LON 4454 9081 4442 9079 4444 9001 4470 9010

$$

BOYNE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Clark	54 min
Jun 7, 8:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Clark	37 min
Jun 7, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Taylor	33 min
Jun 7, 8:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Clark	47 min
Jun 7, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Jackson, Trempealeau	62 min
Jun 7, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Jackson	52 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.