Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2000, 6:05 PM CDT for Racine County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 55 min. 2 reports 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
- Jul 2, 2000, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Racine County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 6:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Caledonia, WI | |
| Jul 2, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Husher, 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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 273 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 870 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
093 WUUS53 KMKX 022305 SVRMKE WIC101-030000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE-SULLIVAN WI 605 PM CDT SUN JUL 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RACINE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 605 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF WATERFORD NORTH...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF MUKWONAGO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WATERFORD NORTH AT 625 PM CDT. WIND LAKE AT 630 PM CDT. STURTEVANT AT 655 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. DAVIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Jefferson | 55 min |
| Jul 2, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 40 min |
| Jul 2, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Walworth, Waukesha | 59 min |
| Jul 2, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 64 min |
| Jul 2, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Racine | 41 min |
| Jul 2, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha | 26 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.