Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1998, 6:02 PM CDT for Columbia County, Marquette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 63 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 18, 1998, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1998, 7:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Columbia County, WI, Marquette County, WI
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 18, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 1347 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 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 182302 RRA SVRMKE WIC021-025-045-077-190005- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 602 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COLUMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN DANE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN GREEN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN MARQUETTE COUNTY IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 705 PM CDT * AT 602 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM DELTON IN NORTHEAST SAUK COUNTY TO MT. HOREB IN DANE COUNTY TO SOUTH... MOVING WAYNE IN SOUTHEAST LAFAYETTE COUNTY. * THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXTEND FROM NEAR... OXFORD IN WESTERN MARQUETTE COUNTY TO PORTAGE IN COLUMBIA COUNTY TO MADISON TO MONROE IN GREEN COUNTY. HURRICANE-FORCE WINDS OF 70 TO 80 MPH ARE POSSIBLE ALONG WITH LARGE HAIL. 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. KAPELA/TH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 11:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa | 48 min |
| Jun 18, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane | 60 min |
| Jun 18, 1:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia | 54 min |
| Jun 18, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green | 61 min |
| Jun 18, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Marquette | 60 min |
| Jun 18, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green Lake | 64 min |
| Jun 18, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock | 60 min |
| Jun 18, 4:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Rock, Walworth | 33 min |
| Jun 18, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Walworth, Waukesha | 61 min |
| Jun 18, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa, Lafayette | 55 min |
| Jun 18, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sauk | 55 min |
| Jun 18, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 60 min |
| Jun 18, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Green | 60 min |
| Jun 18, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia | 60 min |
| Jun 18, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa, Lafayette, Sauk | 50 min |
| Jun 18, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Green | 63 min |
| Jun 18, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Green Lake | 62 min |
| Jun 18, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Rock | 62 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.