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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 2000, 7:40 PM CST for Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 2000, 7:40 PM CST (01:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2000, 8:45 PM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sheboygan County, WI
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, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 630 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 762 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKX 090142 SVRMKE WIC117-090245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 740 PM CST WED MAR 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SHEBOYGAN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 845 PM CST * AT 740 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF PLYMOUTH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HOWARDS GROVE BY 750 PM CST. SHEBOYGAN BY 755 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! 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. LAT...LON 4383 8816 4366 8806 43x64 8773 4390 8773
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 6:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 33 min |
| Mar 8, 6:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Washington | 52 min |
| Mar 8, 6:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dodge | 38 min |
| Mar 8, 6:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 46 min |
| Mar 8, 6:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 42 min |
| Mar 8, 7:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Ozaukee, Washington | 49 min |
| Mar 8, 7:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 26 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.