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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 127, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2000, 4:22 PM CDT for Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 53 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 22, 2000, 4:22 PM CDT (21:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2000, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Fond du Lac County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 4:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Fond Du Lac, 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 849 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 734 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMKX 222121 SVRMKE WIC039-222215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE-SULLIVAN WI 422 PM CDT TUE AUG 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FOND DU LAC COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 422 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROSENDALE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RIPON...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... NORTH FOND DU LAC AT 430 PM CDT. FOND DU LAC AT 435 PM CDT. MOUNT CALVARY 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! LAT...LON 4387 8886 4369 8878 4371 8818 4393 8820 KAPELA
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 22, 2:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 2:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 240 PM CDT TUE AUG 22 2000 FCST CHALLENGE CENTERS ON CONVECTION IN THE SHORT TERM. INSTABILITY AXIS...MINUS 8 LI/S...HAS SET UP OVR SRN WI...WITH IA MVC PULLING OUT OF ERN IA. BROAD SFC TROF HAS TAKEN HOLD OF WI...PER ANIMATED AWIPS ANAL. MRNG 12Z ANAL ALSO SHOWED H2 100 KT JET PLAYING A ROLE PROVIDING SUPPORT TO MVC. BUT MAIN STORY IS THE MVC ITSELF AND ITS IMPACT ON SRN WI THIS EVE. SHOULD BE GOOD SUBSIDENCE FIELD IN WAKE OF SHRA/TSRA...SO THINK WE CAN WIND THINGS DOWN THIS EVE. THIS BASED ON PURE EXTRAP OF RAD/SAT TRENDS...THO MODEL RH AND VV FIELDS IMPLY SOME PCPN MAY LINGER AFT MID. WILL STICK ALONG THE LINES OF THE FORMER FOR NOW. SHOULD PONT OUT THAT NGM SEEMS TO BE DOING BETTER JOB WITH QPF. NEXT CHALLENGE LTR TNGT IS DEGREE OF CLRG AND POSSIBLE FOG FORMATION. LGT WINDS...LLVL MOIST ADDED FROM RAINS PLUS HIGH DEW POINTS...SHOULD SPELL FOG. ONLY QUES MARK IS THE CLEARING TNGT. STILL A LOT OF LOW CLOUDS WRAPPING AROUND MVC IN SRN MN AND IA...SO CLRG TREND MAY TAKE A WHILE. WL MENTION FOG FOR WED NGT...ESP WITH LGT WIND REGIME. BETTER RADL CONDS EXPECTED WED NGT TOO. WK SFC HI PRES AND UPR LEVEL RDGING SHOULD THEN KEEP THINGS QUIET THRU THU. AVN TRYING TO GENERATE PCPN WED AND THU BUT WILL SIDE WITH ETA/NGM SOLN FOR NOW AND KEEP POP OUT OF FCST. SOME INSTABILTY NOTED IN BUFFY SOUNDINGS THO OVERALL DRY AIR...MID LEVEL INVERSION ARND H650-H750 AND LACK OF FORCING MEANS WILL STICK TO THE DRY LOOK. AVN FAN POPS ARE NEAR NIL AS WELL. PREFER A BLEND OF 3 HRLY FWC TEMPS AND FAN. .UWNMS...12Z RUN NOT AVBL...DID NOTICE 8/22 00Z RUN DID NOT CATCH ANY QDPF FROM THIS SYS AT ALL. .MKX...NONE. COLLAR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sheboygan | 63 min |
| Aug 22, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 45 min |
| Aug 22, 5:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Sheboygan | 105 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.