Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2000, 4:33 AM CDT for Kenosha County, Racine County, Walworth County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 57 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 10, 2000, 4:33 AM CDT (09:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2000, 5:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Kenosha County, WI, Racine County, WI, Walworth County, WI
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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 600 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1236 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMKX 100933 SVRMKE WIC059-101-127-101030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE-SULLIVAN WI 433 AM CDT MON JUL 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RACINE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN WALWORTH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN KENOSHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 530 AM CDT * AT 433 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR ELKHORN...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BURLINGTON AT 445 AM CDT. CAMP LAKE AT 450 AM CDT. PADDOCK LAKE AT 455 AM CDT. PLEASANT PRAIRIE AT 505 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 LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! LAT...LON 4274 8859 4256 8860 4245 8728 4272 8726 .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 10, 3:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 3:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 300 AM CDT MON JUL 10 2000 SHORT ON TIME TONIGHT AS SEVERE WEATHER/DERECHO PUSHING ACROSS SOUTHERN WISCONSIN. LITTLE CHANGE 4IN OVERALL PACKAGE EXPECTED. WILL KEEP FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR WESTERN CWA RUNNING THROUGH MORNING HOURS UNTIL CONVECTION CLEARS CWA. .MKX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THIS MRNG ZNS 056-057-062-063-067>069. EISE
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, 2:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Green | 54 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, 5:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Sauk | 3 hr |
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.