Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2000, 3:35 PM CDT for Columbia County, Green Lake County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 2000, 3:35 PM CDT (20:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Columbia County, WI, Green Lake County, WI
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 12, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -508 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMKX 122035 SVRMKE WIC021-047-122115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 335 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN COLUMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN GREEN LAKE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT 335 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF PARDEEVILLE...OR 5 MILES EAST OF PORTAGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CAMBRIA BY 345 PM CDT. KINGSTON BY 350 PM CDT. MARKESAN BY 355 PM CDT. GREEN LAKE BY 405 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! KAPELA
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, 12:02 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, 3:55 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.