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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 2000, 4:57 PM CST for 4 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 48 min. 8 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 2000, 4:57 PM CST (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2000, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Columbia County, WI, Dane County, WI, Iowa County, WI, Sauk County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 4:58 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Mt Horeb, WI | |
| Mar 8, 5:08 PM CST | Hail 1 | Hollandale, WI | |
| Mar 8, 5:10 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Portage, WI | |
| Mar 8, 5:10 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Reedsburg, WI | |
| Mar 8, 5:21 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Blue Mounds, WI | |
| Mar 8, 5:30 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Portage, WI | |
| Mar 8, 5:30 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Wisconsin Dells, WI | |
| Mar 8, 5:54 PM CST | Hail 1 | Marshall, 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 189 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 082259 SVRMKE WIC021-025-049-111-082345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 457 PM CST WED MAR 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SAUK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN COLUMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN DANE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN IOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 545 PM CST * AT 457 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOUNT HOREB... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MOUNT HOREB BY 520 PM CST. BLACK EARTH BY 530 PM CST. MAZOMANIE BY 535 PM CST. PRAIRIE DU SAC BY 540 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! 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, 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 |
| Mar 8, 5:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock | 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.