Jun 13, 2000
Flash flooding and scattered severe thunderstorms struck parts of south-central and southeast Wisconsin during the afternoon and evening hours. Several clusters of showers and thunderstorms moved east/northeast at 35 to 40 mph across the area. Synoptically, a warm front stalled over northern Illinois with an axis of instability extending north into southern Wisconsin. A short-wave trough aloft moved east through the region. South of the surface front the dewpoints were in the 70s. Here is a bre
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 5153191). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Dane County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.