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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 136, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 2000, 3:46 AM CDT for Green Lake County, Marquette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 59 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
- Sep 2, 2000, 3:46 AM CDT (08:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2000, 4:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Green Lake County, WI, Marquette County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 3:50 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Germania, 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 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 582 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMKX 020846 SVRMKE WIC047-077-020945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE-SULLIVAN WI 346 AM CDT SAT SEP 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN MARQUETTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN GREEN LAKE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 445 AM CDT * AT 346 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES EAST OF MONTELLO...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BERLIN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PRINCETON AT 400 AM CDT. GREEN LAKE AT 420 AM CDT. BERLIN AT 425 AM 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! HAIL UP TO 3/4 OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE STORM'S PATH...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO @NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT. LAT...LON 4388 8942 4371 8933 4378 8890 4398 8892 DAVIS
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 Sep 2, 3:00 AM CDT, 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 3:00 AM CDT, 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 300 AM CDT SAT SEP 2 2000 FCST FOCUS COVERS MANY ELEMENTS...PCPN TRENDS EARLY THIS MORNING... CLD TRENDS AS FRONT HEADS BACK NORTH TDY/TNGT...PCPN TRENDS LTR AS FRONT HEADS BACK SOUTH. STATIONARY FNT NOW SET UP JUST S OF WI BORDER. SHALLOW COOLER AIR HAS OVERSPREAD CWA...BUT CONVECTION CONTINUES ACRSS NE CWA. SHALLOW NATURE OF COOLER BNDRY LAYER HIGHLIGHTED BY BLUE RIVER PROFILER STILL SHOWING STEADY SW FLOW AT H8...IN ADDTION...88D VAD WINDS INDICATE S WNDS OF 25KTS BY THE 2ND GATE. CONVECTION TO THE N IS ELEVATED AND ENHANCED BY MID LEVEL S/W AND MID LEVEL CAA TRACKING THRU ATTM. RUC/ETA DEPICT THIS WELL. THIS SUPPORT SHULD EXIT THIS MORNING LEAVING TODAY RATHER QUIET. BIGGEST QUESTION WILL BE CLD COVER TODAY. FOG PRODUCT SHOWS THE FAR S AND SE CLRG AND WULD EXPECT MORE ERROSION TO THE N...JUST NOT CONFIDENT HOW FAR NORTH. WL PLAY WITH THIS RIGHT UP TO PRESS TIME. SPC/HPC FOCUS ON ACTIVITY ACRS NRN/CNTRL WI FOR TONIGHT LOOKS GUD. LOW DVLPG ACRS THE PLAINS WL SEND THE STATIONARY FNT BACK NORTH AS WMFNT. H8 BNDRY WELL INTO NRN WI TONIGHT. ACTION SHULD FOCUS BTWN THE TWO. BEST THERMAL GRADIENT AND LLV CONVERGENCE OF MOIST AIR ON NOSE OF DVLPG 35KT JET WL OCCUR UPSTREAM AND THEN OVR NRN/CNTRL WI TONIGHT. DEEP FORCING TO BE ENHANCED BY YET ANOTHER STRONG S/W RIDING OUT OF THE NRN ROCKIES AND THRU TOP OF UPR RDG. WL KEEP PCPN CHC FOR TONIGHT...BUT PUSH IT OFF LATE...BEST CHC ACRS NRN CWA TONIGHT. ON SUNDAY...SFC LOW PROG TO COME THRU SRN WI WITH WMFNT IN VCNTY... LIKELY SHARPENED BY OUTFLOW FM PREV NOCTURNAL CONVECTION. THUS...SPC HAS OUTLOOK SVR FOR SUN AND THIS LOOKS GOOD. CAPPING WL BE AN ISSUE...BUT IT DOESN/T APPEAR ALL THAT STRONG. PREV FCST LOOKING A BIT COOL AND WELL BELOW CURRENT GUID. GIVEN SHALLOW NATURE OF COOL BNDRY LAYER AND TREND OF CLD COVER...WL BUMP TEMPS UP A NOTCH OR TWO. THIS COORD WELL WITH LATEST INPUT FM SURROUNDING OFFICES. .MKX...NONE. DAVIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 4:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac, Sheboygan | 3 hr |
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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.