Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2000, 4:17 PM CDT for Kenosha County, Racine County, Walworth County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 58 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
- Aug 5, 2000, 4:17 PM CDT (21:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2000, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 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 nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 1397 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 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 052118 SVRMKE WIC059-101-127-052215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE-SULLIVAN WI 417 PM CDT SAT AUG 5 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 515 PM CDT * AT 417 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR DELAVAN...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LAKE GENEVA AT 425 PM CDT. BURLINGTON AT 435 PM CDT. BROWNS LAKE AT 440 PM CDT. PADDOCK LAKE AT 445 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! 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 4275 8874 4257 8875 4250 8765 4275 8763
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 5, 2:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 2:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 225 AM CDT SAT AUG 5 2000 FCST CONCERNS THIS CYCLE MAINLY ON PCPN CHCS. BIG SLUG OF RAIN COMING THRU ATTM ON LEADING EDGE BEST H8 WAA. ASSOC MID LEVEL S/W SHOWING UP WELL ON 88D LOOPS AND WV IMAGERY. AVN SEEMS TO HAVE THE BEST LOCK ON ITS POSITION AND TRACK...DUE EAST TO SE WI VCNTY BY 00Z SUN. NOTHING HAPPENING UPSTREAM OF THIS COMPLEX ATTM AND NOT SURE IF MORE WILL DVLP AHEAD OF SFC FNT TO THE WEST BEFORE IT COMES THRU BEGINNING TWRD MORNING. MAIN REASON IS LACK OF ANY UPR LEVEL KICKER WITH FNT...DRY SLOT ABOVE H8 ARRIVES AHEAD OF FNT...AND LTL WAA. IN FAVOR OF PCPN IS THE SIMPLE FACT OF A FNT COMING THRU WITH LINGERING INSTIBILITY AND SFC DWPNTS IN THE MID 60S TO NR 70. WL MENTION SCT PCPN ENDING...THEN CHC AGAIN LT WITH FRNT. UPR TROF DEEPENS OVR RGN SUN AS NEXT MAJOR UPSTREAM MID LEVEL S/W... NOW ENTERING THE DKTAS...DIGS IN. BUT AS MENTIONED DEEP DRY AIR ALREADY PUSHING THRU...WITH FNT LIKELY OUT OF WI BY ARND 18-20Z ON WED. H8 GOES W TO NW WITH WK CAA...AND BY 00Z MON MUCH LOWER SFC DWPNT AIR HAS DRIVEN IN. MAIN THREAT WL BE ALNG DWPNT BNDRY FOR SE WI ON SUN. CAPES APPRCHG 3K AND LI/S OF ABT -6 AHEAD OF SFC DWPNT FNT COULD BE BREEDING GROUND FOR A BRIEF ROUND OF STRONG STORMS. WORTHY OF THE CHC ON SUN. DRY SUN NGT INTO MON. WL MENTION A POP ON MON OVR WRN CWA AS RETURN FLOW/WAA MAY HELP TRIGGER PCPN THERE IN THE AFTN. GUID TEMPS ALL OVER THE PLACE AND WL USE A BLEND OF COOL AVN AND HOT NGM. .UWNMS...SHOWS NO PCPN AFT THIS CURRENT WAVE COMES THRU THIS EVENING. LOOKS SIMILAR TO ETA. .MKX...NONE. DAVIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock | 52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.