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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 2, 2000Kenosha County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2000, 9:39 PM CDT for Kenosha County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 36 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, 9:39 PM CDT (02:39 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2000, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kenosha County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 209 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

054 
WUUS53 KMKX 030239
SVRMKE
WIC059-030315-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 939 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR PADDOCK LAKE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  KENOSHA AT 950 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 4266 8817 4251 8821 4251 8771 4266 8774

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, 7 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 2:30 PM CDT, 7 hours 9 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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 2, 9:32 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
932 PM CDT SUN JUL 02 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0529 PM    JOHNSON CREEK             WI   1 INCH HAIL
07/02/00   JEFFERSON                      REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0540 PM    5 E JOHNSON CREEK         WI   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/02/00   JEFFERSON                      REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0555 PM    WAUKESHA                  WI   60 MPH TSTM GUST
07/02/00   WAUKESHA                       REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR. ESTIMATED
                                          WIND GUST IN SOUTHWEST
                                          PART OF CITY.

0555 PM    3 SE SULLIVAN             WI   2 INCH HAIL
07/02/00   JEFFERSON                      REPORTED BY NWS
                                          EMPLOYEES AT WEATHER
                                          OFFICE.

0555 PM    WAUKESHA CO ARPT          WI   78 MPH TSTM GUST
07/02/00   WAUKESHA                       AWOS OBSERVATION.

0603 PM    DOUSMAN                   WI   .88 INCH HAIL
07/02/00   WAUKESHA                       REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0610 PM    2 S DOUSMAN               WI   70 MPH TSTM GUST
07/02/00   WAUKESHA                       3/4 INCH HAIL ALSO
                                          REPORTED. REPORTED BY
                                          HAM RADIO OPERATOR.
                                          WIND GUST WAS MEASURED.

0612 PM    BROOKFIELD                WI   58 MPH TSTM GUST
07/02/00   WAUKESHA                       REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR. MEASURED WIND
                                          GUST.

0612 PM    NEW BERLIN                WI   60 MPH TSTM GUST
07/02/00   WAUKESHA                       REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR. MEASURED GUST.

0617 PM    WAUKESHA                  WI   URBAN FLOODING
07/02/00   WAUKESHA                       10 INCH DEEP WATER ON
                                          ROADS IN SOUTHEAST PART
                                          OF CITY AND UP TO
                                          BOTTOM OF CARS.
                                          REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

0645 PM    MUKWONAGO                 WI   URBAN FLOODING
07/02/00   WAUKESHA                       REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.  WATER 6 TO 8
                                          INCHES DEEP AT
                                          JANESVILLE AND LANNON RD.

0650 PM    CALEDONIA                 WI   WIND DAMAGE
07/02/00   RACINE                         REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
                                          NWS EMPLOYEE.  TREES
                                          DOWNED.

0701 PM    RACINE                    WI   60 MPH TSTM GUST
07/02/00   RACINE                         REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.  ESTIMATED
                                          WIND GUST.

0740 PM    OAK CREEK                 WI   WIND DAMAGE
07/02/00   MILWAUKEE                      REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS
                                          AND HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATORS.  TRUCKS
                                          BLOWN OVER. DAMAGE TO
                                          SIDING OF HOMES. TREES
                                          DOWNED. POSSIBLY A
                                          TORNADO...UNCONFIRMED
                                          AT THIS TIME. EVENT
                                          DURATION 5 MINUTES.

0745 PM    BROOKFIELD                WI   WIND DAMAGE
07/02/00   WAUKESHA                       REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.  12 INCH
                                          DIAMETER TREES DOWN.

0825 PM    DELAFIELD                 WI   .88 INCH HAIL
07/02/00   WAUKESHA                       REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0826 PM    IRON RIDGE                WI   70 MPH TSTM GUST
07/02/00   DODGE                          REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR. ESTIMATED
                                          WIND GUST.

0838 PM    RICHFIELD                 WI   WIND DAMAGE
07/02/00   WASHINGTON                     FEW TREES DOWNED.
                                          REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

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, 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

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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.