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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 2, 2000Kenosha County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2000, 6:49 PM CDT for Kenosha County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 26 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
Jul 2, 2000, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Kenosha County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 213 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2000-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 273 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2000-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

723 
WUUS53 KMKX 022350
SVRMKE
WIC059-030015-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE-SULLIVAN WI
649 PM CDT SUN JUL 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN KENOSHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 649 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF KENOSHA...OR ABOUT 5    
  MILES WEST OF RACINE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  KENOSHA AT 700 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

DAVIS

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.

NWS Milwaukee, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 2, 2:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 2:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
230 PM CDT SUN JUL 2 2000

FORECAST FOCUS IS ON PRECIPITATION CHANCES THIS EVENING THEN LATER
IN PD.

MCS FROM LAST NIGHT HAS BROUGHT SOME DOUBT TO ACCURACY OF MODELS IN
THE SHORT RUN.  THEY ALL DID A POOR JOB RESOVING THIS SYSTEM AND
THE COOL STABLE LAYER IT LAID OUT NOT LIKELY RESOVLED...BUT
IMPORTANT...MAYBE.  SFC BOUNDRY ADVERTISED TO DROP THROUGH THE AREA
THIS EVENING...LOCATED AT 19Z FM NR KMTW...TO KISW...TO NR KLSE AND
ALNG THE MN IA BRDR.  AMORPHOUS MID LEVEL S/W ROLLING OVR THIS
BNDRY WITH MAX CORE OVER WRN WI...THEN STRUNG OUT TO NR KFSD.  THIS
TRACKS ESE THIS EVENING AND WL HELP ENHANCE UVV ALNG BNDRY DURG PK
INSTABILITY THIS EVENING. SWOMCD FM SPC DISCUSSING INTERACTION OF
OLD MCS OUTFLOW BNDRY OVR IA WITH THE ARRIVAL OF THE FNT.
ANTICIPATED CONVECTION OVR IA COULD CLIP SRN WI BEFORE DROPPING S.

ONCE CONVECTION DROPS SOUTH WITH FROPA BY 06Z IN THE SE...LOOKS
QUIET FOR ABOUT 24 TO 36 HOURS. DRIER NE FLOW UNDER WEAK AND
TEMPORARY RIDGING SHOULD KEEP THE RAIN AT BAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT.
CLOUD COVER AFT FROPA THRU MONDAY NIGHT SOMEWHAT QUESTIONABLE WITH
MODELS SHOWING VARYING DEGREES OF HUMIDITY. WL KEEP IT M.CLDY
TONIGHT...DECREASE CLDS MONDAY...CONT INTO MONDAY NGT. AS THE RIDGE
PULLS OFF TO THE EAST AND LOW PRESSURE STRENGTHENS AGAIN TO THE
WEST...THE ONCE COOL FRONT WILL HEAD BACK NORTH AS A WARM FRONT. THE
PASSAGE OF THIS FRONT ON TUESDAY MAY TRIGGER MORE SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS...THOUGH THE THREAT APPEARS SMALL AND A WASHOUT IS NOT
LIKELY. SML POPS REQUIRED.

NGM MOS TEMPS LOOK GUD. AVN LOOKING A TAD COOL.

.UWNMS...NOT AVAILABLE.

.MKX...NONE.
DAVIS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDodge, Jefferson55 min
Jul 2, 5:35 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXJefferson40 min
Jul 2, 5:46 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXWalworth, Waukesha59 min
Jul 2, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXMilwaukee, Waukesha64 min
Jul 2, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXRacine55 min
Jul 2, 6:34 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXMilwaukee, Racine41 min

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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.