Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1997, 2:32 AM CDT for Ozaukee County, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 1997, 2:32 AM CDT (07:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1997, 3:20 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ozaukee County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:34 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 3468 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 648 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 9.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 210732 RRA SVRMKE WIC089-117-210820- BULLETIN - IMMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 232 AM CDT SAT JUN 21 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN OZAUKEE COUNTY - SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN SOUTHERN SHEBOYGAN COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 320 AM CDT * THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT BELGIUM CEDAR GROVE * AT 228 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR AT SULLIVAN INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF SHEBOYGAN OR IN THE VICINITY OF BELGIUM MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 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 HUSE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. GARCIA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 3:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 119 min |
| Jun 21, 3:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa, Lafayette | 65 min |
| Jun 21, 3:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Green | 55 min |
| Jun 21, 4:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Dodge, Washington | 119 min |
| Jun 21, 4:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Ozaukee | 119 min |
| Jun 21, 4:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Jefferson | 62 min |
| Jun 21, 5:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Lafayette | 62 min |
| Jun 21, 6:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green | 60 min |
| Jun 21, 7:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock, Walworth | 63 min |
| Jun 21, 7:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 2 hr |
| Jun 21, 4:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.