Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2000, 8:22 AM CDT for Green County, Rock County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 23 min. 3 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
- May 8, 2000, 8:22 AM CDT (13:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2000, 8:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Green County, WI, Rock County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 8:28 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 E | Dayton, WI | |
| May 8, 8:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Fulton, WI | |
| May 8, 8:50 AM CDT | Hail 1 | Milton, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 862 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 823 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMKX 081322 SVRMKE WIC045-105-081345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 822 AM CDT MON MAY 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ROCK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN GREEN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 845 AM CDT * AT 822 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS LOCATED 8 MILES WEST OF BRODHEAD...OR 5 MILES EAST OF MONROE...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BRODHEAD BY 825 AM CDT. ORFORDVILLE BY 830 AM CDT. EVANSVILLE BY 835 AM CDT. EDGERTON BY 840 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! KAPELA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green, Lafayette | 57 min |
| May 8, 8:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane | 47 min |
| May 8, 8:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock | 32 min |
| May 8, 8:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dodge, Jefferson | 44 min |
| May 8, 8:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth | 44 min |
| May 8, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Jefferson | 61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.