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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 2000, 5:58 PM CST for Rock County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 47 min. 3 reports 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
- 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
County Rock County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 6:20 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Palmyra, WI | |
| Mar 8, 6:25 PM CST | Hail 1 | Eagle, WI | |
| Mar 8, 6:50 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Whitewater, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1013 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 4:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Racine, Walworth, Waukesha | 31 min |
| Mar 8, 4:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane, Iowa, Sauk | 48 min |
| Mar 8, 5:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green Lake, Marquette | 38 min |
| Mar 8, 5:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Fond du Lac | 51 min |
| Mar 8, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Walworth, Waukesha | 44 min |
| Mar 8, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock | 44 min |
| Mar 8, 5:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 51 min |
| Mar 8, 5:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 51 min |
| Mar 8, 5:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane | 49 min |
| Mar 8, 5:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Green Lake, Marquette | 49 min |
| Mar 8, 5:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Fond du Lac | 50 min |
| Mar 8, 5:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Walworth, Waukesha | 47 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.