Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1997, 1:44 PM CDT for Milwaukee County, Racine County, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 66 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 1997, 1:44 PM CDT (18:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1997, 2:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Milwaukee County, WI, Racine County, WI, Waukesha County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 2:15 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Sturtevant, WI |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 173 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
227 WUUS1 KMKE 051845 RRA SVRMKE WIC079-101-133-WIZ527>529-051950- BULLETIN - IMMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 144 PM CDT MON MAY 5 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MILWAUKEE COUNTY - SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN RACINE COUNTY - SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN SOUTHEASTERN WAUKESHA COUNTY - SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 250 PM CDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED MUKWONAGO BY 143 PM CDT TICHIGAN BY 154 PM CDT WAUBEESEE BY 155 PM CDT BIG BEND BY 155 PM CDT WATERFORD BY 156 PM CDT ROCHESTER BY 156 PM CDT * AT 143 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 32 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF RACINE OR 4 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF MUKWONAGO MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. DAVIS/MEADE
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 5, 10:53 AM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-060155- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1053 AM CDT MON MAY 5 1997 ...LOW RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THREAT... LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. DISCUSSION... THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO REDEVELOP OVER SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AFTER 2 PM. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION... STORM SPOTTER GROUPS MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED AFTER 3PM TODAY. MK
Special weather statement, May 5, 10:54 AM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-060155- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1053 AM CDT MON MAY 5 1997 ...LOW RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THREAT... LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. DISCUSSION... THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO REDEVELOP OVER SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AFTER 2 PM. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION... STORM SPOTTER GROUPS MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED AFTER 3PM TODAY. MK
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.