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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2000, 11:55 PM CDT for Jefferson County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 65 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, 11:55 PM CDT (04:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 12:25 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Sullivan, 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 11, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 522 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMKX 120457 SVRMKE WIC055-120600- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1155 PM CDT THU MAY 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 100 AM CDT * AT 1155 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED OVER LAKE RIPLEY...OR 5 MILES WEST OF LAKE MILLS...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LAKE MILLS BY MIDNIGHT CDT. JEFFERSON BY 1205 AM CDT. SULLIVAN BY 1220 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! A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. HENTZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa, Sauk | 67 min |
| May 11, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane, Dodge | 66 min |
| May 11, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 64 min |
| May 11, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Washington | 64 min |
| May 11, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 53 min |
| May 11, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Ozaukee | 55 min |
| May 12, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 58 min |
| May 12, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 69 min |
| May 12, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 61 min |
| May 12, 7:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sauk | 50 min |
| May 12, 8:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Sauk | 66 min |
| May 12, 10:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green Lake, Marquette | 38 min |
| May 12, 11:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac, Sheboygan | 56 min |
| May 12, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Green Lake | 40 min |
| May 12, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 50 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.