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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 11, 2000, 7:25 PM CDT for Waukesha County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 65 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 11, 2000, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Waukesha County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 7:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Waukesha, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 406 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -427 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1060 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMKX 120045 SVRMKE WIC133-120130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE-SULLIVAN WI 725 PM CDT MON SEP 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WAUKESHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 725 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF DOUSMAN...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF JEFFERSON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... OCONOMOWOC AT 735 PM CDT. DOUSMAN AT 740 PM CDT. DELAFIELD AT 745 PM CDT. HARTLAND AT 750 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 4314 8856 4290 8854 4286 8809 4318 8810 CG/NJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth | 67 min |
| Sep 11, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sauk | 60 min |
| Sep 11, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 62 min |
| Sep 11, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock | 60 min |
| Sep 11, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 58 min |
| Sep 11, 9:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 4 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.