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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 2006, 1:56 PM CDT for Columbia County, Sauk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 2 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 25, 2006, 1:56 PM CDT (18:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2006, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Columbia County, WI, Sauk County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:56 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this flash flood warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 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 251902 FFWMKX WIC021-111-252100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 156 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WESTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN EASTERN SAUK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 151 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A CLUSTER THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN COLUMBIA AND EASTERN SAUK COUNTIES. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER THE AREA SO FAR...WITH RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. THESE STORMS WILL REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY. * THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTIES ESPECIALLY IN THE VICINITY OF LAKE WISCONSIN. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA THROUGH 4 PM. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MILWAUKEE. LAT...LON 4334 8975 4330 8953 4345 8939 4356 8964 $$ FOWLE
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KMKX 251943 FFSMKX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 240 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006 WIC021-111-252100- COLUMBIA WI-SAUK WI- 240 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR SAUK AND COLUMBIA COUNTIES... AT 238 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR POYNETTE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF LAKE WISCONSIN...MOVING EAST AROUND 7 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ARLINGTON AND WYOCENA. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. RADAR ESTIMATED STORM TOTAL RAINFALL IS APPROACHING 4 TO 5 INCHES. AN OBSERVER REPORTED 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN AT ABOUT 210 PM CDT AND THE TORRENTIAL RAIN CONTINUES. ANOTHER INCH OR TWO OR RAIN IS POSSIBLE. DO NOT TRAVEL OVER ROADS COVERED WITH AN UNKNOWN DEPTH OF WATER...IT IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. LAT...LON 4334 8975 4328 8940 4349 8931 4356 8964 $$ DAVIS
000 WGUS73 KMKX 252007 FFSMKX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 305 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006 WIC021-111-252100- COLUMBIA WI-SAUK WI- 305 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR SAUK AND COLUMBIA COUNTIES... AT 303 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR POYNETTE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PORTAGE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. ANOTHER STORM THAT MAY BE PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING IS LOCATED OVER WESTERN SAUK COUNTY NEAR LIME RIDGE AND IRONTON. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ARLINGTON AND WYOCENA. STORM TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE NEAR 5 INCHES IN SOME AREAS AROUND POYNETTE. ANOTHER INCH OR MORE OF RAIN IS EXPECTED. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM 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. DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. LAT...LON 4332 9016 4328 8940 4349 8931 4358 9019 $$ DAVIS
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Milwaukee, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 25, 3:28 AM CDT, 10 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 3:28 AM CDT, 10 hours 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 328 AM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006 .DISCUSSION...FCST FOCUS IS ON RESOLVING PCPN CHCS WITH UPR LOW. SFC LO IN SW WI. OVERALL LGT WND REGIME ATTM WITH STRATUS DEVELOPMENT NOTED ON 11/3 IMAGERY IN WRN CWA. SOME LWR VSBYS IN WRN CWA SO WILL MENTION SOME ERLY FOG. SCT SHRA IN ERN CWA THEN LOOKS LIKE A LULL WITH RADAR ANIM AND WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWING DEFORMATION ZONE ACRS CNTRL WI INTO SRN MN. THE WX PATTERN WILL BE DOMINATED BY AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH FOR THE FIRST PART OF THE WEEK. H5 TEMPS WILL BE ON THE COOL SIDE...MAINLY IN THE MINUS 14-16C RANGE. DAYTIME HEATING WILL HELP TO GENERATE THE SCT SHRA/TSRA. UPPER LEVEL DCVA WILL BE PLAYING A ROLE AS WELL FROM TIME TO TIME DUE TO SPOKES OF VORT AND PROX OF UPPER LEVEL CIRC. FOR TODAY THE WATER VAPOR/RUC ANIMATION SHOWS A VORT CENTER WEST OF KGRB WITH TAIL OF SAID VORT PRODUCING THE SCT SHRA ACRS ERN CWA. ANOTHER VORT MAX INTO WRN IA. THESE 2 COMBINE INTO ONE UPPER LOW AND EVOLVE AN UPPER LOW CENTER ACRS ERN IA BY 00Z MON. THIS PLACES THE WRN CWA WITHIN THE BEST ZONE OF DCVA...ALTHO ENTIRE CWA IS WITHIN THE GRASP OF TROUGHINESS ALOFT AND THE ASSOC COOL POOL. LI/S BECOME NEGATIVE AS WELL. CAPES AE QUITE SKINNY AND JUST A FEW HUNDRED. WILL HAVE HIGHEST POPS IN WRN CWA. MODELS SHOW THE MAIN UPR LOW CENTER DRIFTING FURTHER SE TNGT ALTHO CWA REAMINS IN UPPER TROF AXIS. IN FACT GFS INDICATES A 23 UNIT VORT CENTER WRAPPING NWD INTO SRN WI TNGT. WILL HAVE HIGHEST POPS IN SRN CWA. MON WILL SEE MORE OF THE SAME WITH MRGNL CAPE AND VORT AXIS ACRS STATE WITH THE COOL H5 TEMPS. HOWEVER WITH SFC LOW TO OUR SOUTH THE NE WINDS WILL KEEP ATMOS MORE STABLE THAN TODAY. WILL GO WITH CHC POPS FOR NOW WITH ONLY ISOLD T MENTIONED. BY TUESDAY GFS INDICATES ANOTHER UPR LOW DROPPING OUT OF CANADA AND ABSORBING/KICKING OUT THE REMNANTS OF UPR LOW TO OUR SOUTH. NE WIND FLOW FOR QUITE SOME TIME WILL KEEP TEMPS COOLER NEAR LM. && .MKX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 12:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1205 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006 WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-260900- COLUMBIA-DANE-DODGE-FOND DU LAC-GREEN-GREEN LAKE-IOWA-JEFFERSON- KENOSHA-LAFAYETTE-MARQUETTE-MILWAUKEE-OZAUKEE-RACINE-ROCK-SAUK- SHEBOYGAN-WALWORTH-WASHINGTON-WAUKESHA- 1205 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. THE GREATEST THREAT WILL BE FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AFTERNOON...AND TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS EVENING. LMZ643>646-665-260900- NORTH POINT LIGHTHOUSE TO WIND POINT- PORT WASHINGTON TO NORTH POINT LIGHTHOUSE- SHEBOYGAN WI TO PORT WASHINGTON- WIND POINT TO WINTHROP HARBOR ILLINOIS- 1205 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED OVER THE NEARSHORE AND OPEN WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WIND AND WAVES MAY APPROACH SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CRITERIA THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AFTERNOON...AND TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 25, 1:42 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
142 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0133 PM HAIL LAKE WISCONSIN 43.37N 89.58W
06/25/2006 E0.25 INCH COLUMBIA WI LAW ENFORCEMENT
LAW ENFORCMENT REPORT HEAVY WIND AND HIGH WINDS
0140 PM HAIL LAKE WISCONSIN 43.37N 89.58W
06/25/2006 E0.25 INCH COLUMBIA WI LAW ENFORCEMENT
ESTIMATED 40 MPH WIND WITH HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL
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RSCHAARThe office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 12:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock | 30 min |
| Jun 25, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia | 54 min |
| Jun 25, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane, Dodge | 43 min |
| Jun 25, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia | 64 min |
| Jun 25, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 3:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Dane | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Columbia, Sauk | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 5:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Dane | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Wisconsin, 2006Every flash flood warning in 2006
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.