Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1997, 8:06 PM CDT for Dodge County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 54 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
- Aug 3, 1997, 8:06 PM CDT (01:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1997, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dodge County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 8:25 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Randolph, 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 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 657 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 863 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 040106 RRA SVRMKE WIC027-040150- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 806 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR DODGE COUNTY - SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED FOX LAKE BEAVER DAM HORICON MAYVILLE * AT 800 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR WAUPUN...18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FOND DU LAC. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. LARGE HAIL HAS BEEN OBSERVED WITH THIS STORM...DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE. 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. MK,NJ,TH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green, Rock | 59 min |
| Aug 3, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac, Green Lake | 57 min |
| Aug 3, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green Lake | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Racine, Walworth | 58 min |
| Aug 4, 1:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane | 47 min |
| Aug 4, 1:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane | 49 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.