Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2000, 8:30 AM CDT for Green County, Lafayette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report 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 11, 2000, 8:30 AM CDT (13:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2000, 9:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Green County, WI, Lafayette County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:33 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 11, 8:52 AM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Gratiot, 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 938 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
616 WUUS53 KMKX 111331 SVRMKE WIC045-065-111430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 830 AM CDT THU MAY 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN GREEN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 930 AM CDT * AT 830 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 2 MILES EAST OF SHULLSBURG...OR 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DARLINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... GRATIOT BY 835 AM CDT. BROWNTOWN BY 850 AM CDT. MONROE BY 855 AM CDT. BRODHEAD BY 910 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 REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN SULLIVAN. EISE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Lafayette | 59 min |
| May 11, 9:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Lafayette | 4 hr |
| May 11, 9:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Green | 4 hr |
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.