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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Milwaukee, WI

May 28, 1998Walworth County, Waukesha County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1998, 9:45 PM CDT for Walworth County, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 60 min. 5 reports 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 28, 1998, 9:45 PM CDT (02:45 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1998, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Walworth County, WI, Waukesha County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:46 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
May 28, 9:52 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Dousman, WI
May 28, 10:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 68	Elkhorn, WI
May 28, 10:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Geneva, WI
May 28, 10:04 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 61	Waukesha, WI
May 28, 10:55 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitewater, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 28, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 184 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2843 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMKE 290245 RRA
SVRMKE
WIC127-133-290345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
945 PM CDT THU MAY 28 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WALWORTH COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN
  WAUKESHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 943 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM OCONOMOWOC IN
  WAUKESHA COUNTY TO DELAVAN IN WALWORTH COUNTY... MOVING EAST AT
  30 MPH.

* THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXTEND FROM NEAR...WAUKESHA
  IN WAUKESHA COUNTY TO ELKHORN AND LAKE GENEVA COUNTY BY 1000 PM
  CDT.

IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS... SEEK SAFETY IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A BASEMENT OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES.

JH/TZ

The office that day

Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Lafayette	62 min
May 28, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Sauk	52 min
May 28, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Green Lake, Marquette	62 min
May 28, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane, Green	63 min
May 28, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Jefferson, Rock	53 min
May 28, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dodge, Fond du Lac	63 min
May 28, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Milwaukee, Racine	62 min
May 28, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Kenosha	62 min
May 28, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Sheboygan	57 min

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.