Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1998, 12:30 AM CDT for Kenosha County, Racine County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 60 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 28, 1998, 12:30 AM CDT (05:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1998, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kenosha County, WI, Racine 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 27, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -435 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 689 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 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 280532 SVRMKE WIC059-101-280630- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1230 AM CDT SUN JUN 28 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KENOSHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN RACINE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 130 AM CDT * AT 1230 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM EAST TROY TO LAKE GENEVA IN WALWORTH COUNTY... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORM ARE BURLINGTON...PADDOCK LAKE AND NEW MUNSTER. THESE STORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE VERY INTENSE LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. 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. HENTZ/JH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sauk | 93 min |
| Jun 27, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Iowa | 91 min |
| Jun 27, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Marquette | 91 min |
| Jun 27, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green Lake | 78 min |
| Jun 27, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock | 64 min |
| Jun 28, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth | 65 min |
| Jun 28, 1:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Iowa, Sauk | 4 hr |
| Jun 28, 1:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Lafayette | 4 hr |
| Jun 28, 1:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa, Lafayette | 61 min |
| Jun 28, 2:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Dane, Green, Rock | 4 hr |
| Jun 28, 2:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Green | 59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.