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Areal Flood Warning 9, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this areal flood warning at Aug 21, 2018, 5:26 PM CDT for Dane County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 23 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 21, 2018, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2018, 4:04 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Dane County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Milwaukee, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood warning went out at Aug 21, 4:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 4:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 20, 7:07 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MKX | Green, Lafayette, Rock | 3 hr |
| Aug 20, 8:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Dane | 3 hr |
| Aug 20, 9:43 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Green, Rock | 6 days |
| Aug 20, 9:45 PM CDT | River Flood Watch | MKX | Lafayette | 14 hr |
| Aug 20, 10:38 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MKX | Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Jefferson, Milwaukee, Washington and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 20, 11:56 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MKX | Dane | 30 hr |
| Aug 21, 12:08 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Dane | 22 hr |
| Aug 21, 12:11 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MKX | Columbia, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Marquette, Milwaukee and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 5:24 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 66 min | |
| Aug 21, 6:16 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 59 min | |
| Aug 21, 6:38 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 37 min | |
| Aug 21, 11:41 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Lafayette | 28 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.