The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for most of southern Wisconsin, including Milwaukee.
The watch was issued Saturday evening, Aug. 9, and will be in effect through 7 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 11.
Those in Milwaukee can expect several rounds of thunderstorms, rain and wind, Benjamin Sheppard, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Milwaukee office, said.
“This first round of storms today has been to some extent unpredictable in terms of when and where they’ll intensify and how fast they will propagate and move,” Sheppard said.
The National Weather Service predicts the heaviest rounds of rain to fall between Saturday evening and Sunday evening.
Fallen trees were reported by local law enforcement in Menomonee Falls around 5 p.m., Sheppard said.
In the event of a flash flood, the National Weather Service urges the public to heed any road closures. The majority of flood-related fatalities in the U.S. occur in vehicles, Sheppard explained, “turn around, don’t drown.”
Liliana Fannin is a 2025 summer intern at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel covering the Milwaukee suburbs. She can be contacted at lfannin@gannett.com.
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