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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI

155 AM CDT MON JUN 24 2002



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR FOREST...MARINETTE AND 

DOOR COUNTIES...

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR ONEIDA COUNTY...



AT 150 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE 

THUNDERSTORMS THAT PRODUCED THE TORRENTIAL RAINS ACROSS NORTH 

CENTRAL WISCONSIN LATE SUNDAY EVENING...HAS NOW MOVED INTO DOOR 

COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. HOWEVER...

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE STILL BEING DETECTED ACROSS 

FOREST AND MARINETTE COUNTIES.  



IN FOREST COUNTY...RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS 

FALLEN TONIGHT SOUTH OF CRANDON TO LAONA LINE. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL

TOTALS SHOULD BE LESS THAN A HALF INCH.  A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS 

IN EFFECT DUE TO RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAINS OVER THE LAST SEVERAL 

HOURS. 



IN MARINETTE COUNTY...THE HEAVIEST RAINS FELL ACROSS CENTRAL AND 

SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY...SOUTH OF A WAUSAUKEE TO CALDRON 

FALLS RESERVOIR LINE...AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM PESHTIGO TO POUND.  

RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 5 TO 7 INCHES OF RAIN FELL FROM JUST WEST OF 

CRIVITZ TO MIDDLE INLET SOUTHEAST THROUGH LOOMIS TO PORTERFIELD TO 

NEAR MARINETTE. TOTALS OF 7 INCHES OR MORE ARE POSSIBLE NEAR 

PORTERFIELD. THE SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED THAT 1 TO 2 FEET OF 

WATER COVERED THE SIDES OF THE ROAD IN PORTERFIELD. EXTENSIVE STREET 

FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN MARINETTE. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN 

EFFECT DUE TO RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAINS OVER THE LAST SEVERAL 

HOURS. 



IN DOOR COUNTY...AS OF 1:45 AM...RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 2 TO 4 INCHES 

OF RAIN HAS FALLEN FROM NEAR CARLSVILLE TO JACKSONPORT...TO FISH 

CREEK...EGG HARBOR AND BAILEYS HARBOR. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS 

OF LESS THAN INCH CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH 4 AM. THEREFORE...A FLASH 

FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR DOOR COUNTY DUE TO THE 

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL...AND THE RAIN THAT HAS ALREADY FALLEN. 



IN ONEIDA COUNTY...RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN FELL 

IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME LATE SUNDAY EVENING...FROM HAZELHURST AND 

WILLOW RESERVOIR EAST TO RHINELANDER AND MC NAUGHTON. THE RAIN ENDED 

WITHIN THE LAST TWO HOURS...AND ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OVERNIGHT 

WILL BE MINIMAL...THEREFORE THE FLASHFLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN 

CANCELLED FOR ONEIDA COUNTY. 



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 

DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT

QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY

IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.



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