Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Milwaukee, WI

Issued

Mar 8, 2000, 5:58 PM CST (23:58 UTC)

Expired

Mar 8, 2000, 6:45 PM CST

In force

47 min

Issued by

NWS Milwaukee, WI

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Jefferson County, WI, Walworth County, WI, Waukesha County, 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.

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TTAA00 KMKX 090000
SVRMKE
WIC055-105-127-133-090045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
558 PM CST WED MAR 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ROCK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
  WAUKESHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN
  JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN
  WALWORTH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 645 PM CST

* AT 558 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WHITEWATER...OR  
  8 MILES EAST OF JANESVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WHITEWATER BY 615 PM CST.
  PALMYRA BY 625 PM CST.
  DOUSMAN BY 635 PM CST.
  DELAFIELD BY 645 PM CST.

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 4264 8901 4256 8880 4314 8828 4320 8859
DAVIS

NWS Milwaukee, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 8, 3:30 PM CST, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
330 PM CST WED MAR 8 2000

FCST CHALLENGES CENTER ON DESCRIBING AREAL COVERAGE OF PCPN TONITE...
CHANGEOVER IN PCPN AND TEMP TREND ON THU. SHORT DISC DUE TO PENDING
SVR WX.

IN THE SHORT TERM...COMPLEX FORECAST AS ROUND OF EVE TSTMS TO
GRADUALLY GIVE WAY TO OCNL SHWERS WITH APPCH OF MAIN SYSTEM.
ETA/AVN/NGM PROGS ALL WEAKEN AND OPEN UP MAIN SYSTEM WITH TIME.  WILL
ATTEMPT TO TIME FALL OF TEMPS OVERNITE AS TEMPS TO REMAIN MILD THRU
MUCH OF THE NITE. THEN WILL GO WITH FALLING TEMPS THRUOUT THU WITH
ANY LINGERING RAIN CHANGING TO LITE SNOW/FLURYS.

IN THE FAR TERM...TRAILING TROF FROM DEPARTING LOW TO KEEP CLDS IN
FOR MUCH OF FCST PD.

.UWNMS MODEL...ONLY IN THRU 24 HRS...SHOWING NO QPF THRU 09/12Z.

.MKX...NONE.

0...0...0...0

ZAJDEL

In the hours before

WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-090200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
424 PM CST WED MAR 8 2000

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN UNTIL
   8 PM...

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE RAPIDLY
NORTH-EASTWARD THROUGH SOUTHERN WISCONSIN THIS LATE AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS AND HAIL.
RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF BETWEEN 1/4 AND 1/2 INCH PER HOUR ARE POSSIBLE
WITH SOME OF THE HEAVIER STORMS. 1/4 TO 1/2 INCH HAIL IS ALSO
POSSIBLE.

ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING. PERSONS IN
SOUTHERN WISCONSIN SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER
STATEMENTS AND WARNINGjS.

MK

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.