Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 11, 2000, 8:47 PM CDT for Kenosha County, Racine County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 58 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, 8:47 PM CDT (01:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2000, 9:45 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
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 9:30 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Kenosha, 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 198 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 120147 SVRMKE WIC059-101-120245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE-SULLIVAN WI 847 PM CDT MON SEP 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RACINE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN KENOSHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 847 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF BROWNS LAKE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF BURLINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BROWNS LAKE AT 855 PM CDT. CAMP LAKE AT 900 PM CDT. PADDOCK LAKE AT 905 PM CDT. WIND LAKE AT 910 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 4283 8828 4252 8829 4249 8782 4282 8783 KAPELA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 65 min |
| 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, 9:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 4 hr |
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.