Alert archive / Wisconsin / Flash Flood Warnings in 2014
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this flash flood warning at Sep 5, 2014, 2:08 AM CDT for Door 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
- Sep 5, 2014, 2:08 AM CDT (07:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2014, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Door County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:09 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 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -310 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1071 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
811
WGUS53 KGRB 050708
FFWGRB
WIC029-051000-
/O.NEW.KGRB.FF.W.0005.140905T0708Z-140905T1000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
208 AM CDT FRI SEP 5 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
DOOR COUNTY IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN...
* UNTIL 500 AM CDT
* AT 201 AM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH
FLOODING IN THE SISTER BAY...FISH CREEK AND BAILEYS HARBOR
AREAS...WHERE RADAR INDICATED THAT 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN FELL.
WATER WAS FLOWING ACROSS NUMEROUS ROADS...AND FLOODING WAS
REPORTED IN ONE RESIDENCE AND ONE BUSINESS IN SISTER BAY.
ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE ANOTHER HALF INCH TO AN
INCH OF RAINFALL THROUGH 5 AM...WHICH MAY RESULT IN CONTINUED
FLOODING.
* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
OCCUR. ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
EPHRAIM AND PENINSULA STATE PARK.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. DO
NOT ENTER THE WATER. TURN AROUND AND MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO
ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN
WATER BEGINS RISING.
&&
LAT...LON 4520 8698 4521 8702 4512 8699 4512 8700
4514 8702 4497 8718 4493 8716 4495 8739
4507 8729 4511 8731 4509 8727 4518 8726
4515 8725 4520 8713 4526 8711 4525 8695
$$
KIECKBUSCH2 follow-up statements
527
WGUS73 KGRB 050817
FFSGRB
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
317 AM CDT FRI SEP 5 2014
WIC029-051000-
/O.CON.KGRB.FF.W.0005.000000T0000Z-140905T1000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
DOOR WI-
317 AM CDT FRI SEP 5 2014
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR DOOR COUNTY UNTIL 500 AM
CDT...
AT 312 AM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT FLASH
FLOODING WAS OCCURRING IN THE SISTER BAY AREA...WHERE A COUPLE RESORTS
AND SEVERAL RESIDENCES WERE FLOODED. ALTHOUGH THE STEADY HEAVY
RAINFALL HAS ENDED...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS
WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL ARE STILL POSSIBLE FOR NEXT FEW HOURS.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...SISTER
BAY...FISH CREEK...BAILEYS HARBOR...EPHRAIM AND PENINSULA STATE PARK.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF
SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND
UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.
&&
LAT...LON 4520 8698 4521 8702 4512 8699 4512 8700
4514 8702 4497 8718 4493 8716 4495 8739
4507 8729 4511 8731 4509 8727 4518 8726
4515 8725 4520 8713 4526 8711 4525 8695
$$
KIECKBUSCH528
WGUS73 KGRB 051008
FFSGRB
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
508 AM CDT FRI SEP 5 2014
WIC029-051017-
/O.EXP.KGRB.FF.W.0005.000000T0000Z-140905T1000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
DOOR WI-
508 AM CDT FRI SEP 5 2014
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR DOOR COUNTY HAS
BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...
LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS REPORTED THAT FLOODING CONDITIONS ARE
IMPROVING IN NORTHERN DOOR COUNTY...BUT SOME ROADS ARE STILL
COVERED BY WATER. MOTORISTS IN THE SISTER BAY...FISH CREEK...
EPHRAIM AND BAILEYS HARBOR AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR WATER ON
THE ROADS...AND USE CAUTION FOR THE MORNING COMMUTE.
ALTHOUGH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH BRIEF
HEAVY RAINFALL ARE STILL POSSIBLE FOR A COUPLE MORE HOURS...EXCESS
RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS TAPERED OFF OVER THE WARNED AREA. FLOOD
WATERS IN THE WARNED AREA WERE BEGINNING TO RECEDE. IF FLOODING HAS
BEEN OBSERVED...PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY.
LAT...LON 4520 8698 4521 8702 4512 8699 4512 8700
4514 8702 4497 8718 4493 8716 4495 8739
4507 8729 4511 8731 4509 8727 4518 8726
4515 8725 4520 8713 4526 8711 4525 8695
$$
KIECKBUSCHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 11:34 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 71 min | |
| Sep 5, 12:08 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GRB | Door, Langlade, Marinette, Menominee, Oconto, Shawano | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 12:32 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 88 min | |
| Sep 5, 2:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 19 min |
| Sep 5, 11:34 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | GRB | Marathon | 7 days |
| Sep 5, 12:02 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | GRB | Shawano, Waupaca | 7 days |
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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.