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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2000, 12:02 AM CDT for Waukesha County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 58 min. 2 reports 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 12, 2000, 12:02 AM CDT (05:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Waukesha County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 12:10 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Delafield, WI | |
| May 12, 12:28 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 E | Hartland, 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 163 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 120503 SVRMKE WIC133-120600- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1202 AM CDT FRI MAY 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WAUKESHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 100 AM CDT * AT 1202 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF DOUSMAN...OR 2 MILES EAST OF JEFFERSON...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... OCONOMOWOC BY 1215 AM CDT. DELAFIELD BY 1220 AM CDT. PEWAUKEE BY 1225 AM CDT. BROOKFIELD BY 1230 AM CRDT. 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 11, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 65 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.