21st Conf. on Severe Local Storms and 19th Conf. on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/15th Conf. on Numerical Weather Prediction

Monday, 12 August 2002
Storm Surge on Lake Butte Des Morts during the 11 June 2001 bow echo event
Timothy P. Marshall, Haag Engineering Co., Dallas, TX; and E. S. Brusky and J. K. Last
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On 11 June 2001, a derecho moved southeast through central Wisconsin producing a large swath of straight-line winds. The storm passed over several shallow lakes including Lake Butte Des Morts near Oshkosh, WI. This lake was oriented northwest-southeast in alignment with the crest of the bow echo. Strong winds lasting more than thirty minutes created a storm surge on the southeast end of the lake as high as 1 meter. Many portable boat docks were destroyed. The authors will present a meteorological summary of this event along with the results of our damage survey. This will be the first time a storm surge has been documented on an inland lake with a derecho.

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