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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1999, 11:06 PM CDT for Dane County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 59 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
- May 16, 1999, 11:06 PM CDT (04:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1999, 12:05 AM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dane 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3009 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1174 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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
Local storm report, May 16, 8:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
802 PM CDT SUN MAY 16 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0625 PM WEST BEND WI 60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/16/99 WASHINGTON
0635 PM WATERFORD WI 64 MPH TSTM GUST
05/16/99 RACINE
0735 PM KENOSHA WI 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/16/99 KENOSHA
GDLocal storm report, May 16, 8:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
802 PM CDT SUN MAY 16 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0625 PM WEST BEND WI 60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/16/99 WASHINGTON
0635 PM WATERFORD WI 64 MPH TSTM GUST
05/16/99 RACINE
0735 PM KENOSHA WI 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/16/99 KENOSHA
GDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha | 63 min |
| May 16, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Lafayette | 60 min |
| May 16, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa | 60 min |
| May 16, 10:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Iowa, Lafayette | 3 hr |
| May 16, 10:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Sauk | 3 hr |
| May 16, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green, Lafayette | 58 min |
| May 16, 10:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Columbia, Marquette | 3 hr |
| May 16, 11:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Green | 3 hr |
| May 17, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock | 60 min |
| May 17, 1:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth | 61 min |
| May 17, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 60 min |
| May 17, 4:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Green, Lafayette | 14 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.