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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Milwaukee, WI

June 8, 1999Iowa County, Lafayette County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1999, 5:15 PM CDT for Iowa County, Lafayette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1999, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1999, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Iowa County, WI, Lafayette County, WI

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 8, 5:44 PM CDTHail 1Dodgeville, WI

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 138 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 1999-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1122 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 1999-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1122 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1455 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 3:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
WIZ046-047-056-057-062-063-067>069-082300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
305 PM CDT TUE JUN 8 1999

...HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...
...FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN...

THREAT...
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE REST OF
THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT.

DISCUSSION...
VERY UNSTABLE AIR COMBINED WITH DEVELOPING SURFACE CONVERGENCE WILL
BE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.

SPOTTER ACTION...
STORM SPOTTER GROUPS MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED THIS AFTERNOON INTO
TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN.

EISE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXMarquette57 min
Jun 8, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXSauk56 min
Jun 8, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXColumbia, Dane62 min
Jun 8, 6:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXColumbia, Sauk2 hr
Jun 8, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXGreen Lake63 min
Jun 8, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXFond du Lac61 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.