Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2000, 6:19 PM CDT for Dodge County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 41 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
- Aug 1, 2000, 6:19 PM CDT (23:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Dodge County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 6:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Juneau, 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 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 1427 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMKX 012319 SVRMKE WIC027-020000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE-SULLIVAN WI 619 PM CDT TUE AUG 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DODGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 619 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR JUNEAU...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CLYMAN AT 625 PM CDT. HORICON AT 635 PM CDT. HUSTISFORD AT 645 PM CDT. IRON RIDGE AT 700 PM CDT. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BEAVER DAM 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! HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 4350 8888 4330 8894 4322 8844 4348 8840 MK
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 Aug 1, 2:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 2:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 230 PM CDT TUE AUG 1 2000 FORECAST FOCUS IS ON CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY ALG AND AHD OF CDFNT COMING THRU TMRW. RATHER DISORGANIZED BROAD SWATH OF SCTD CNVTN CONTS OVR MUCH OF WI THIS AFTN. LOOKS LIKE FIRST AREA OF CONCERN FOR STGR STUFF IS TO OUR W CLOSER TO MN SFC LO AND MOST UNSTABLE AIRMASS...REF SPC DISC AND WATCH JUST ISSUED. WRN CWA STILL VULNERABLE THO...REF DAY 1 SLGT RISK AREA. RH AND LI PROGS INDC THAT ACTVTY MAY PERSIST WELL INTO THE NIGHTTIME HRS. ON WED...ETA/RGL BRING THE CDFNT THRU HERE BEFORE 18Z...WITH AVN NOT FAR BHND. DRIER AIR ALSO PUNCHES IN DURG THE MRNG. ACCORDINGLY... AFTN SVR WX THREAT APPRS TO HV SHIFTED SWD INTO IL/IN...REF QPF PROGS AND DAY 2 SPC OUTLOOK. SO PRBLY WL NOT CARRY ALG SVR WORDING FOR THAT PD. COOLER AIR SPRDS ACRS ENTIRE RGN LATER PDS AS HI PRES BUILDS DOWN FM CANADA. NE FLOW ARND HI TYPICALLY MEANS CLDS DON'T COMPLETELY CLEAN OUT OF AREA...SO WON'T BE TOO OPTIMISTIC WITH SUNSH FCST THU. .UWNMS...NOT AVBL...UNFORTUNATELY. WUD HV LIKED TO SEE HOW FRONT TIMING AND INSTABILITY PROGS COMPARED WITH OTR MODELS. .MKX...NONE. NJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Washington | 58 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.