Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2000, 7:47 PM CDT for Milwaukee County, Waukesha 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
- May 8, 2000, 7:47 PM CDT (00:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2000, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Milwaukee County, WI, Waukesha County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:50 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, 7:55 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Mukwonago, 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMKX 090048 SVRMKE WIC079-133-090145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 747 PM CDT MON MAY 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WAUKESHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 747 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL LOCATED OVER MUKWONAGO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BIG BEND BY 755 PM CDT. MUSKEGO BY 800 PM CDT. NEW BERLIN BY 805 PM CDT. BROOKFIELD BY 810 PM CDT. WEST ALLIS BY 815 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 4294 8851 4283 8837 4288 8785 4318 "8793
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 48 min |
| May 8, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 13 hr |
| May 8, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Racine, Walworth | 43 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.