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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Milwaukee, WI

June 6, 1999Kenosha County, Racine County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1999, 6:51 PM CDT for Kenosha County, Racine County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 54 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 6, 1999, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1999, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Kenosha County, WI, Racine County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 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.

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: 1488 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 803 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 206 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 240 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.9

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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, Jun 6, 5:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 6, 5:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 6, 5:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 6, 5:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 6, 6:40 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane, Green, Rock	58 min
Jun 6, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia	56 min
Jun 6, 3:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Green, Rock	54 min
Jun 6, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dodge	54 min
Jun 6, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Jefferson	61 min
Jun 6, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Walworth	54 min
Jun 6, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Marquette	66 min
Jun 6, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Sauk	66 min
Jun 6, 4:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Walworth	63 min
Jun 6, 4:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dane, Jefferson	59 min
Jun 6, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac	56 min
Jun 6, 4:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Jefferson	32 min
Jun 6, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Waukesha	60 min
Jun 6, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Green Lake	55 min
Jun 6, 4:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Waukesha	66 min
Jun 6, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Washington	63 min
Jun 6, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Milwaukee, Racine	62 min
Jun 6, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Kenosha	62 min
Jun 6, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Ozaukee, Sheboygan	75 min
Jun 6, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dodge	24 min
Jun 6, 5:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Ozaukee	35 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.