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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Green Bay, WI

June 8, 20084 counties in Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this flash flood watch at Jun 8, 2008, 3:09 PM CDT for 4 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 2008, 3:09 PM CDT (20:09 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 2008, 2:59 AM CDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Flood severity
None

Counties Calumet County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Winnebago County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 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 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 52 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2008-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 10 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2008-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 112 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-360 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
988 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Green Bay, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Jun 8, 3:04 PM CDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 3:04 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
304 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 2008

.DISCUSSION...AREA CURRENTLY ENJOYING A LULL IN THE PCPN. RAIN-
COOLED AIR FM MORNING MCS COMBINED WITH EXTENSIVE DEBRIS FIELD
HELD TEMPS BACK...SO LOCAL MESO ANALYSIS PLOTS THIS AFTN SHOWED
RATHER STABLE AIR ACRS THE AREA. ATM WAS IN THE PROCESS OF
RECOVERING BACK TO THE WEST. SHRTWV EJECTING TOWARD THE AREA FM
THE PLAINS WAS LEADING TO AN INCR AND SLGT BACKING OF 850 MB FLOW.
CONVECTION WAS FIRING IN A NNE/SSW BAND ALONG THE MAIN FRONTAL
BOUNDARY IN IA...AND IN AN E-W BAND NEAR THE MN/IA BORDER. THOSE TWO
AREAS OF PCPN SHOULD CONTINUE TO EXPAND AND POSSIBLY MERGE INTO
ANOTHER MCS WHICH WILL HEAD TOWARD THE FCST AREA TNGT. MODELS TENDED
TO TAKE THE PCPN MAX NE ACRS THE NW PART OF THE FCST AREA. THAT
DID NOT FIT WITH RADAR TRENDS WHICH WOULD SUGGEST A GREATER RISK
OF HEAVY RAIN ACRS THE SE 2/3 OF THE AREA. THE SOUTHERN TIER OF
COUNTIES HAD SOME FLOODING THIS MORNING...BUT AT LEAST HAVE HAD
SEVERAL HOURS TO ALLOW THE WATER TO RUN-OFF OR SOAK IN. BUT NEW
RAINS OVER THOSE AREAS COULD LEAD TO A MORE SERIOUS FLOODING
SITUATION. SO WILL POST A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THAT AREA.
CONFINED WATCH TO THAT AREA SINCE THE REST OF THE AREA DID NOT GET
AS MUCH RAIN THIS MORNING.

DETAILS FOR THE REST OF THE FCST STILL TOUGH TO PIN-DOWN. COULD
MAKE A CASE FOR PCPN IN JUST ABOUT ANY FCST PERIOD...BUT TRIED TO
FOCUS CHCS IN PERIODS WITH THE BEST CHCS. PCPN WL BE POSSIBLE
AGAIN AS FRONTAL BOUNDARY SHOULD SETS-UP CLOSE TO THE AREA MID-WK
AS WEAK CANADIAN HIGH BUILDS SWD TOWARD LAKE SUPERIOR. THEN THERE
SHOULD BE A BREAK BEFORE NEXT STG UPR SYSTEM OVER THE NRN PLAINS
GETS CLOSE ENOUGH TO GENERATE PCPN. PREFERRED THE SLOWER 00Z ECMWF
WHICH HAD SUPPORT FROM THE CANADIAN MODEL. THE 12Z GFS TRENDED IN
THAT DIRECTION.
&&

.AVIATION...SOME IFR CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP AGAIN TNGT AS NEXT MCS
MOVES INTO THE AREA.
&&

.GRB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH LATE TONIGHT
WIZ045-048>050-

&&

SKOWRONSKI/ESB
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 1:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMarinette, Menominee, Oconto21 min
Jun 7, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMarinette27 min
Jun 7, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBOconto, Shawano14 min
Jun 7, 8:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBCalumet20 min
Jun 8, 9:55 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGRBCalumet, Manitowoc, Winnebago3 hr
Jun 8, 5:59 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGRBCalumet, Manitowoc, Winnebago2 hr

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.