Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1998, 6:23 PM CST for Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 37 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
- Mar 30, 1998, 6:23 PM CST (00:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1998, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ozaukee County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 2:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 468 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 310023 RRA SVRMKE WIC089-310100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 623 PM CST MON MAR 30 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN OZAUKEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 700 PM CST * AT 624 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF WESTBEND MOVING INTO NORTHERN OZAUKEE COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FREDONIA AT 635 PM CDT BELGIUM AT 640 PM CDT * EXPECT 1 INCH HAIL FROM THESE STORMS. 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. DAVIS/HENTZ
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, Mar 30, 3:45 PM CST, 2 hours 38 minutes before
WIZ022-035>072-310750- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ...DAY 2 OUTLOOK... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 345 PM CST MON MAR 30 1998 ...SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WISCONSIN FOR TUESDAY... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND A FEW TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF THE SOUTHERN HALF OF WISCONSIN ON TUESDAY. THE AREA IS ROUGHLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LA CROSSE TO GREEN BAY. THIS WOULD INCLUDE THE METRO AREAS OF MADISON AND MILWAUKEE. THE MAIN TIMING OF THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT APPEARS TO BE TUESDAY MORNING INTO TUESDAY AFTERNOON. A POWERFUL SPRING STORM OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS LATE THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON WILL TRACK IN A NORTHERLY DIRECTION TOWARD THE GREAT LAKES OVERNIGHT. AN OUTBREAK OF SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE ON TUESDAY AS THIS STORM APPROACHES. ALL INGREDIENTS NECESSARY FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE IN PLACE AND IF ENOUGH SURFACE HEATING TAKES PLACE THIS COULD BE A SIGNIFICANT OUTBREAK. THIS IS A PRELIMINARY ADVISORY STATEMENT. PLEASE LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND FORECASTS. JH/DAVIS
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 3:45 PM CST, 2 hours 38 minutes before
WIZ022-035>072-310750- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ...DAY 2 OUTLOOK... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 345 PM CST MON MAR 30 1998 ...SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WISCONSIN FOR TUESDAY... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND A FEW TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF THE SOUTHERN HALF OF WISCONSIN ON TUESDAY. THE AREA IS ROUGHLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LA CROSSE TO GREEN BAY. THIS WOULD INCLUDE THE METRO AREAS OF MADISON AND MILWAUKEE. THE MAIN TIMING OF THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT APPEARS TO BE TUESDAY MORNING INTO TUESDAY AFTERNOON. A POWERFUL SPRING STORM OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS LATE THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON WILL TRACK IN A NORTHERLY DIRECTION TOWARD THE GREAT LAKES OVERNIGHT. AN OUTBREAK OF SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE ON TUESDAY AS THIS STORM APPROACHES. ALL INGREDIENTS NECESSARY FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE IN PLACE AND IF ENOUGH SURFACE HEATING TAKES PLACE THIS COULD BE A SIGNIFICANT OUTBREAK. THIS IS A PRELIMINARY ADVISORY STATEMENT. PLEASE LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND FORECASTS. JH/DAVIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 11:07 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Iowa, Sauk | 6 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.