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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 10, 2000Dane County, Green County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2000, 2:51 AM CDT for Dane County, Green County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 54 min. 4 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 10, 2000, 2:51 AM CDT (07:51 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2000, 3:45 AM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dane County, WI, Green County, WI

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jul 10, 3:15 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Daleyville, WI
Jul 10, 3:20 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Jordan, WI
Jul 10, 3:50 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Monroe, WI
Jul 10, 3:55 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Oregon, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 10, 2:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 2939 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1086 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 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.

000 
WUUS53 KMKX 100751
SVRMKE
WIC025-045-100845-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE-SULLIVAN WI
251 AM CDT MON JUL 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DANE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
  GREEN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 345 AM CDT

* AT 251 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 21 MILES WEST OF BLUE MOUNDS TO
  19 MILES WEST OF BROWNTOWN...OR FROM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  DODGEVILLE TO 8 MILES SOUTH OF DARLINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  BLUE MOUNDS AT 310 AM CDT.
  MOUNT HOREB AT 315 AM CDT.
  MONROE AT 320 AM CDT.
  CROSS PLAINS AT 325 AM 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
LIGHTNINvG. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!

.END
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 9, 8:45 PM CDT, 6 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 8:45 PM CDT, 6 hours 6 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
845 PM CDT SUN JUL 9 2000

HAVE UPDATED TO REMOVE SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN COUNTIES FROM FLASH FLOOD
WATCH.  HAVE KEPT AREAS OF WRN CWA IN WATCH FOR TONIGHT INTO MON
MORNING.  LATEST SFC ANALYSIS SHOWS LOW PRES CENTERED OVR
SCNTRL NEB WITH A FNT STRETCHING NE INTO EXTRM ERN SDKTA/SW MN.
WMFNT COMPLETES TRIPPLE POINT REGION AS IT INTERSECTS BNDRY OVR
EXTREME NW IA. THE WMFNT STRETCHES ESE ACRS NRN INTO ERN IA.  LATEST
88D LOOPS INDICATE THE TRIPLE POINT MAY BE THE MAIN FCST FOR
CONVECTION THE NEXT FEW HOURS AS CELLS BEGINNING TO DVLP RAPIDLY.
THIS IS IN THE REGION OF THE LATEST MESO DISCUSSION FM SPC. THIS
WOULD CONFIRM THE QPF SOLUTION OF THE 18Z MESO-ETA AND 12Z ETA
MODELS...KEEPING BULK OF PCPN OVR FAR SW WI AND POINTS W AND S OF WI.
THE AIR IS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE ACRS IA...THOUGH CAPPED ATTM.

CONVECTION STILL EXPECTED ACRS THE AREA LTR TONIGHT AND MONDAY
MORNING. HOWEVER...LWR DWPNTS ACRS ERN WI AND OVERALL LOWER MOISTURE
IN THE COLUMN...AS REFLECTED IN THE PRECIPITATBLE WATER...SHOULD KEEP
THE FLOODING RAINS AT BAY ACRS THE EAST.  BETTER THREAT IN THE
WRN COUNTY WARNING AREA...BUT CONFIDENCE NOT REAL HIGH FOR THAT
POTENTIAL.

.MKX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TNGT AND MON MRNG ZNS 056-057-062-063-
067>069.

DAVIS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 2:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Iowa, Lafayette	63 min
Jul 10, 3:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Iowa, Lafayette	20 min
Jul 10, 3:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Rock	60 min
Jul 10, 3:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Green	22 min
Jul 10, 3:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane	44 min
Jul 10, 4:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Kenosha, Racine, Walworth	57 min
Jul 10, 5:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MKX	Sauk	3 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.