Weather service official rain totals for Milwaukee show four areas with more than a foot of rain
The National Weather Service's Milwaukee office tallied four locations with over 12 inches of rain, as other parts of the metro area received between 5 and 11 inches of rain from 7 a.m. on Saturday and 8 a.m. Monday. The flooding that ensued is considered the second worst of all time in Milwaukee, and is statistically considered a 1,000-year flood.
"I certainly hope a storm like this does not visit upon the city for at least another millennium,' Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson said at a news conference on August 11.
The storm and subsequent flooding had much fallout: tens of thousands were without power in southeastern Wisconsin on Saturday and Sunday; many in Milwaukee dealt with flooded basements; cars were submerged and areas like Wauwatosa Village were plunged into rising waters.
The largest rainfall totals were seen to the west in Waukesha County, with three of the four largest rainfall counts in that county.
Here's the weather services' totals for areas around the Milwaukee area:
Milwaukee County rain totals:
Three miles northeast of Butler: 12.08 inches
About four miles northwest of downtown Milwaukee: 11.71 inches
Bayside:10.09 inches
Downtown Milwaukee: 9.34 inches
West Allis: 8.94 inches
Greenfield 8.77 inches
Brown Deer 8.46 inches
River Hills: 8.40
Glendale 8.35 inches
Wauwatosa: 7.99 inches
Cudahy: 7.41 inches
St. Francis: 7.37 inches
Hales Corner: 6.26 inches
Franklin: 5.46 inches
Waukesha County rain totals:
3 miles east of Pewaukee: 12.61 inches
Butler (Waukesha County): 12.22 inches
Menomonee Falls: 12.05 inches
Brookfield: 11.26 inches
Hartland: 9.75 inches
2 miles southeast of Waukesha: 9.75 inches
Oconomowoc Lake: 9 inches
Sussex: 8.92 inches
2 miles west of Muskego: 7.70 inches
Ozaukee County rain totals
Port Washington: 9.19 inches
Saukville: 7.72 inches
One mile south of Grafton: 7.55 inches
1.1 miles southwest of Mequon: 7.10 inches
7.3 miles east of West Bend: 6.77 inches
1.2 miles south-southwest of Cedarburg: 6.25 inches
Washington County rain totals
1.4 miles south of Germantown: 10.58 inches
1.9 miles southeast of Hubertus: 10.25 inches
Colagte: 10.21 inches
1.3 miles northwest of West Bend: 10.10 inches
4.6 miles west-northwest of Cedarburg: 9.66 inches
3.2 miles southeast of Jackson: 9.01 inches
The weather service's entire report can be found here.
David Clarey is a public safety reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He can be reached at dclarey@gannett.com.
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