Alert archive / Wisconsin / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 2007, 6:24 PM CDT for Dane County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 2 hr. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2007, 6:24 PM CDT (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2007, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
- Flood severity
- None
County Dane County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 6:30 PM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 2.25 | 4 Sw Sun Prairie, WI | MEASURED 2.25 INCHES OF RAIN IN ONE HOUR...ENDING AT 630 PM...4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SUN PRAIRIE. |
| Jun 3, 6:33 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Madison, WI | 3 FEET OF STANDING WATER ON SOME STREETS IN THE CITY OF MADISON. |
| Jun 3, 7:35 PM CDT | FLOOD | 5 W Madison, WI | STREET FLOODING...WITH WATER UP TO CURBS...AT INTERSECTION OF REGENT STREET AND MIDVALE BOULEVARD. STREET FLOODING ALSO NOTED AT OTHER LOCATIONS NEARBY. |
| Jun 3, 7:38 PM CDT | FLOOD | 2 Sw Madison, WI | 6 INCHES OF STANDING WATER AT INTERSECTION OF SPRING AND PARK STREETS. WATER UP TO BOTTOM OF CARS PARKED ON STREETS NEARBY. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 903 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KMKX 032329
FFWMKX
WIC025-040130-
/X.NEW.KMKX.FF.W.0002.070603T2324Z-070604T0130Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
628 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
DANE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
* UNTIL 830 PM CDT
* AT 625 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
FLASH FLOODING FROM A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS NEAR SUN PRAIRIE
...MADISON...MIDDLETON AND COTTAGE GROVE. ALSO NEAR MARXVILLE AND
CROSS PLAINS. THE STORMS ARE DRIFTING SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 10 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
FITCHBURG...MCFARLAND...ALBION...DEERFIELD AND PINE BLUFF.
DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATE 1.25
TO 1.75 INCHES OF RAIN IN AN HOUR HAS OCCURRED UNDER SOME OF THESE
STORMS.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.
LAT...LON 4329 8968 4318 8982 4286 8983 4286 8903
4328 8904
$$
DAVIS
DAVIS1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS73 KMKX 040023
FFSMKX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
720 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007
WIC025-040130-
/X.CON.KMKX.FF.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070604T0130Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
DANE-
720 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR DANE
COUNTY...
AT 712 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS OVER A LARGE AREA OF DANE COUNTY. MANY AREAS
ARE RECEIVING REPEATED ROUNDS OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. A STORM
SPOTTER ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SUN PRAIRIE RECEIVED 2.25 INCHES
OF RAIN BETWEEN ABOUT 530 AND 630 PM.
THE MADISON METROPOLITAN AREA HAS SEEN QUITE A BIT OF HEAVY RAIN
LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. MIDDLETON...TO
SHOREWOOD HILLS...THROUGH MADISON TO MCFARLAND HAS SEEN 1.5 TO 2
INCHES OF RAIN.
EARLIER THIS EVENING...A REPORT WAS RECEIVED OF UP TO 3 FEET OF
STANDING WATER ON SOME STREETS IN MADISON.
THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE FOR A FEW MORE HOURS
THEN GRADUALLY DIMINISH AS THE SUN SETS.
THE AREAS THAT WILL SEE HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 830 PM INCLUDE...
MADISON...CROSS PLAINS AND PINE BLUFF
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.
LAT...LON 4329 8968 4318 8982 4286 8983 4286 8903
4328 8904
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 11:48 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MKX | Ozaukee, Sheboygan | 9 hr |
| Jun 3, 2:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Ozaukee, Washington | 41 min |
| Jun 3, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 46 min |
| Jun 3, 4:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Dane | 95 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Wisconsin, 2007Every flash flood warning in 2007
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.