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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Milwaukee, WI

June 3, 2007Dane County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 2007, 8:24 PM CDT for Dane County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 96 min. 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, 8:24 PM CDT (01:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2007, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 96 min
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), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:23 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 3, 8:45 PM CDT	FLOOD	Madison, WI	WIDESPREAD BASEMENT FLOODING IN MADISON AREA.
Jun 3, 9:45 PM CDT	HEAVY RAIN 2.51	1 Ne Middleton, WI	MEASURED 2.51 INCHES IN PAST 5 HOURS. MINOR BASEMENT FLOODING.
Jun 3, 9:53 PM CDT	HEAVY RAIN 1.86	5 Ne Madison, WI	MEASURED 1.86 INCHES IN ONE HOUR AT DANE COUNTY REGIONAL AIRPORT.
Jun 3, 10:00 PM CDT	HEAVY RAIN 3.62	Middleton, WI	MEASURED 3.62 INCHES AT KROMREY MIDDLE SCHOOL IN MIDDLETON FOR TODAY.

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 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 82 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1137 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KMKX 040129
FFWMKX
WIC025-040300-
/X.NEW.KMKX.FF.W.0003.070604T0124Z-070604T0300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
824 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL DANE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 819 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED
  TO SHOW HEAVY RAIN MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL DANE 
  COUNTY. THE CITIES OF MIDDLETON...WAUNAKEE AND THE MARXVILLE AREA  
  WERE SEEING THE HEAVIEST RAIN THIS EVENING. THE STORMS ARE MOVING 
  SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.  

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO CROSS
  PLAINS...MAPLE BLUFF...SHOREWOOD HILLS...MADISON...FITCHBURG
  AND PINE BLUFF. 

THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWING A DECREASING TREND OVER 
THE LAST 30 MINUTES.  THIS SHOULD CONTINUE WITH THE SETTING SUN. 
IT WILL TAKE A WHILE FOR THE PONDING WATER TO DRAIN. MOTORISTS ARE 
URGE TO TRAVEL WITH CARE AS DARKNESS SETTLES OVER THE AREA.  

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 8933 4329 8972 4286 8978 4285 8917

$$

DAVIS

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KMKX 040238
FFSMKX

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
933 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007

WIC025-040300-
/X.CON.KMKX.FF.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070604T0300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
DANE-
933 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR
CENTRAL DANE COUNTY...

AT 931 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS FINALLY 
BEGINNING TO SHOW THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SLOWLY DIMINISHING 
ACROSS DANE COUNTY. THE RAINFALL RATES ARE DIMINISHING...BUT THE 
RESIDUAL FLOODING WILL CONTINUE FOR THE TIME BEING. 

WE DO NOT ANTICIPATE ISSUING ANOTHER FLASH FLOOD WARNING THIS 
EVENING. 

NUMEROUS STREETS IN THE MADISON METROPOLITAN AREA EXPERIENCED 
FLOODING THIS EVENING AND THE DANE COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT HAS 
REPORTED WIDESPREAD BASEMENT FLOODING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS FROM JUST 
SOUTH OF MARXVILLE...THROUGH MIDDLETON...ARE IN THE 3.5 TO 4 INCH 
RANGE. 

A LIGHTER RAIN MAY CONTINUE ON AND OFF THROUGH THE NIGHT. SOME LOW 
LYING ROADS MAY REMAIN FLOODED FOR A FEW HOURS TONIGHT...THEREFORE 
MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO TRAVEL WITH CARE AS DARKNESS SETTLES IN. 


LAT...LON 4329 8933 4329 8972 4286 8978 4285 8917

$$

DAVIS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 9:22 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	MKX	Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Sheboygan	12 hr
Jun 4, 6:27 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Wisconsin, 2007 Every 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.