Alert archive / Wisconsin / Flash Flood Warnings in 2015
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 2015, 5:45 AM CDT for Chippewa County, Dunn County, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 3 hr. 5 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
- Jul 6, 2015, 5:45 AM CDT (10:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2015, 8:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Chippewa County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 6:10 AM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 3.71 | 9 Ene Tilden, WI | REPORTED IN JIM FALLS |
| Jul 6, 7:00 AM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 4.2 | 2 N Menomonie, WI | FIELDS AND DITCHES FLOODED |
| Jul 6, 8:00 AM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 3.09 | Bloomer, WI | |
| Jul 6, 8:45 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Knapp, WI | LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED US HWY 12 NEAR KNAPP IS CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING. |
| Jul 6, 8:48 AM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 4.9 | 3 Ese Wheeler, WI | REPORTED 1 MILES N OF HWY 170 AND CTY RD. D INTERSECTION. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 1489 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1240 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
267
WGUS53 KMPX 061045
FFWMPX
WIC017-033-035-061345-
/O.NEW.KMPX.FF.W.0005.150706T1045Z-150706T1345Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
545 AM CDT MON JUL 6 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...
DUNN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...
NORTHERN EAU CLAIRE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...
* UNTIL 845 AM CDT
* AT 543 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED 2 TO 4
INCHES OF RAIN INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS MUCH OF DUNN COUNTY.
FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY...ESPECIALLY NEAR THE CITIES
OF MENOMIE...CHIPPEWA FALLS...AND EAU CLAIRE.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
EAU CLAIRE...MENOMONIE...CHIPPEWA FALLS...ALTOONA...LAKE HALLIE...
STANLEY...BLOOMER...LAKE WISSOTA...CORNELL...CADOTT...FALL CREEK
AND COLFAX.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 94 IN WISCONSIN BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 32 AND
75.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
&&
LAT...LON 4473 9214 4512 9213 4522 9093 4488 9092
4472 9093
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 8:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Barron, Dunn, Pierce, Polk, Saint Croix | 16 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Pierce, Saint Croix | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Eau Claire | 104 min |
| Jul 6, 5:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Pierce, Saint Croix | 5 hr |
| Jul 6, 8:50 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Wisconsin, 2015Every flash flood warning in 2015
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.