Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2000, 7:59 PM CDT for Dane County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 2000, 7:59 PM CDT (00:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2000, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Dane County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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.
224 WUUS53 KMKX 030059 SVRMKE WIC025-030145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE-SULLIVAN WI 759 PM CDT SUN JUL 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DANE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 759 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR COTTAGE GROVE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF MCFARLAND...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. OTHER POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE WESTERN PORTION OF DANE COUNTY. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... DEERFIELD AT 805 PM CDT. ROCKDALE AT 810 PM CDT. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT. LAT...LON 4316 8919 4297 8930 4288 8903 4318 8903 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, 5 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 2:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 29 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, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.