Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2000, 7:21 PM CDT for Kenosha County, Racine County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 2000, 7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Kenosha County, WI, Racine County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 7:21 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Racine, 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 756 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
321 WUUS53 KMKX 030021 SVRMKE WIC059-101-030100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE-SULLIVAN WI 721 PM CDT SUN JUL 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RACINE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN NORTHERN KENOSHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 721 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR UNION GROVE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... STURTEVANT AT 735 PM CDT. RACINE AT 745 PM CDT. KENOSHA AT 750 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 LAT...LON 4282 8807 4263 8821 4245 8753 4269 8741 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 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 2:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa | 59 min |
| Jul 2, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane | 46 min |
| Jul 2, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 57 min |
| Jul 2, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington | 61 min |
| Jul 2, 8:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Racine, Waukesha | 4 hr |
| Jul 2, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha | 36 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.