Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2000, 8:27 PM CDT for Kenosha County, Racine County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2000, 8:27 PM CDT (01:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Kenosha County, WI, Racine County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:30 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.
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, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 200 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 090127 SVRMKE WIC059-101-090215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 827 PM CDT MON MAY 8 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 915 PM CDT * AT 827 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF UNION GROVE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... UNION GROVE BY 830 PM CDT. STURTEVANT BY 840 PM CDT. RACINE BY 845 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 4272 8823 4254 8817 4258 8782 4285 8782
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 58 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.