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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this flash flood warning at Sep 7, 2016, 6:05 PM CDT for Kenosha County, Racine 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 7, 2016, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2016, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Kenosha County, WI, Racine County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -281 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1161 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
581
WGUS53 KMKX 072305
FFWMKX
WIC059-101-080200-
/O.NEW.KMKX.FF.W.0009.160907T2305Z-160908T0200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
605 PM CDT WED SEP 7 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
RACINE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN...
KENOSHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN...
* UNTIL 900 PM CDT
* AT 604 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO ONE INCH OF RAIN HAS
ALREADY FALLEN...AND AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES IS EXPECTED OVER
THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
KENOSHA...RACINE...MOUNT PLEASANT...PLEASANT PRAIRIE...
STURTEVANT...UNION GROVE...PADDOCK LAKE...WIND LAKE...CAMP LAKE...
SILVER LAKE...WIND POINT...EAGLE LAKE...WATERFORD NORTH...
CALEDONIA...SALEM...WATERFORD...BRISTOL...ELMWOOD PARK...
NORTH BAY AND KANSASVILLE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
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 4250 8816 4284 8824 4284 8780 4278 8774
4275 8775 4271 8775 4266 8778 4265 8780
4258 8780 4249 8779
$$
SPM1 follow-up statement
508
WGUS73 KMKX 080032
FFSMKX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
732 PM CDT WED SEP 7 2016
WIC059-101-080040-
/O.CAN.KMKX.FF.W.0009.000000T0000Z-160908T0200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
RACINE WI-KENOSHA WI-
732 PM CDT WED SEP 7 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES IS
CANCELLED...
THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 1.5 TO 2
INCHES FELL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED
TO POSE A THREAT...AND THEREFORE THE WARNING IS CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 4250 8816 4284 8824 4284 8780 4278 8774
4275 8775 4271 8775 4266 8778 4265 8780
4258 8780 4249 8779
$$
SPMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 8:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Sauk | 29 min |
| Sep 6, 9:07 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MKX | Columbia, Sauk | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 6:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Dodge, Jefferson | 60 min |
| Sep 7, 10:15 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Sauk | 3 days |
| Sep 7, 10:15 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Sauk | 6 days |
| Sep 7, 10:15 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Sauk | 7 days |
| Sep 7, 10:16 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MKX | Columbia, Sauk | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 11:02 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MKX | Dodge | 6 hr |
| Sep 7, 12:54 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 21 min | |
| Sep 7, 1:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MKX | Columbia, Sauk | 6 hr |
| Sep 7, 2:05 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Columbia | 24 hr |
| Sep 7, 3:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Washington | 37 min |
| Sep 7, 3:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Lafayette | 51 min |
| Sep 7, 4:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Green | 37 min |
| Sep 7, 4:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Waukesha | 52 min |
| Sep 7, 4:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Rock | 31 min |
| Sep 7, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 29 min |
| Sep 7, 5:02 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 118 min | |
| Sep 7, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Rock, Walworth, Waukesha | 31 min |
| Sep 7, 5:19 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 5:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 6:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 34 min |
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.