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River Flood Warning 5, NWS Milwaukee, WI

September 12, 2022Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this river flood warning at Sep 12, 2022, 5:54 AM CDT for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 49 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 12, 2022, 5:54 AM CDT (10:54 UTC)
Expired: Sep 14, 2022, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 49 hr
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Milwaukee County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Root River at Franklin (FRKW3). The gauge peaked at 9.30 ft at Sep 12, 2022, 2:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 7 ft
Minor stage: 8 ft
Moderate stage: 10 ft
Major stage: 12 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 04087220, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at Sep 12, 5:13 AM CDT, 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 5:13 AM CDT, 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 12, 12:39 AM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
1239 AM CDT MON SEP 12 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1200 AM     HEAVY RAIN       4 SE SULLIVAN           42.97N 88.55W
09/12/2022  M3.47 INCH       JEFFERSON          WI   OFFICIAL NWS OBS

            NWS MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN OFFICE.

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WOOD

Local storm report, Sep 12, 12:54 AM CDT, 5 hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
1254 AM CDT MON SEP 12 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1229 AM     HEAVY RAIN       2 WNW FRANKLIN          42.90N 88.05W
09/12/2022  M6.06 INCH       MILWAUKEE          WI   PUBLIC

            REPORT RELAYED VIA SOCIAL MEDIA.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 11, 7:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MKX	Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine, Walworth, Waukesha	13 hr
Sep 11, 10:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MKX	Racine	117 min
Sep 12, 12:03 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Waukesha	4 days
Sep 12, 12:36 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Milwaukee	21 days
Sep 12, 1:09 AM CDT	Gale Warning	MKX		6 hr
Sep 12, 1:09 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	MKX		12 hr
Sep 12, 4:03 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MKX	Milwaukee, Waukesha	5 hr
Sep 12, 8:53 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MKX	Milwaukee, Racine, Waukesha	9 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.