Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2000, 9:17 PM CDT for Racine County, Walworth County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 43 min. 2 reports 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, 9:17 PM CDT (02:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Racine County, WI, Walworth County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:20 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, 9:20 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Lake Geneva Plyby Ar, WI | |
| May 8, 9:39 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Burlington, 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, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 609 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1116 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 12.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KMKX 090217
SVRMKE
WIC101-127-090300-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
917 PM CDT MON MAY 8 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
RACINE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN
WALWORTH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN
* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
* AT 917 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED OVER WILLIAMS BAY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
55 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
ELKHORN BY 920 PM CDT.
BURLINGTON BY 930 PM CDT.
WATERFORD BY 935 PM CDT.
WATERFORD NORTH BY 940 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 4260 8878 4247 8860 4263 8830 4272 8808
4284 8825The 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, 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 |
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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.