Flash Flood Warning
NWS Milwaukee/Sullivan WI ยท US
Details
Flash Flood Warning Issued September 19 At 1:17AM CDT Until September 19 At 4:00AM CDT By NWS Milwaukee/Sullivan WI
- Event
- Flash Flood Warning
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Immediate
- Severity
- Severe
- Certainty
- Likely
- Response
- Avoid
Description
Overview
FFWMKX The National Weather Service in Milwaukee/Sullivan has issued a * Flash Flood Warning for... Dane County in south central Wisconsin... * Until 400 AM CDT. * At 117 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 2.5 inches of rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches are possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.
Hazard
Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
Source
Radar indicated.
Impacts
Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as other poor drainage and low-lying areas. * Some locations that will experience flash flooding include... Madison, Sun Prairie, Fitchburg, Middleton, Stoughton, Waunakee, Verona, Oregon, McFarland, Monona, Mount Horeb, Edgerton, Marshall, Cottage Grove, Cross Plains, Belleville, Deerfield, Mazomanie, Shorewood Hills and Cambridge. This includes the following streams and drainages... Story Creek, Sugar River, Maunesha River, Williams-barneveld Creek, Murphy Creek, Bohn Creek, Ward Creek, Ross Crossing Creek, Badfish Creek, Gordon Creek, Mount Vernon Creek, Rock River, Token Creek, Elvers Creek, Mud Creek, Saunders Creek, Stony Brook, Allen Creek, Little Door Creek, Swan Creek, Yahara River, Starkweather Creek, Syftestad Creek, West Branch Sugar River, Koshkonong Creek, Murphys Creek, Vermont Creek, Little Sugar River, Halfway Prairie Creek, Primrose Branch, Rutland Branch, Nine Springs Creek, Deer Creek, East Branch Pecatonica River, Badger Mill Creek, Spring Creek, Pheasant Branch, West Branch Blue Mounds Creek and Black Earth Creek.
Instructions
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles. Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the dangers of flooding.
Affected areas
- Dane County, WI
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Milwaukee/Sullivan WI
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~1m0s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2W510YKXXZYJWJ3MECX53KW
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.b462c1d4a9a3ed53cb92c0ae9dc8806008aed11a.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Milwaukee/Sullivan WI
- AWIPS ID
- CAPMKX
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.440
- WMO heading
- XOUS53
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 53
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | FFW |
| NationalWeatherService | FFW |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | FFWMKX |
| WMOidentifier | WGUS53 KMKX 190617 |
| flashFloodDetection | RADAR INDICATED |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| VTEC | /O.NEW.KMKX.FF.W.0022.260919T0617Z-260919T0900Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-19T04:00:00-05:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Dane County, WI
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 055025 |
| UGC | WIC025 |
- Polygons
- 43.17,-89.84 43.17,-89.01 42.85,-89.01 42.85,-89.37 42.86,-89.37 42.86,-89.84 43.17,-89.84