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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 6:31 PM CDT for Walworth County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 13, 2000, 6:31 PM CDT (23:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Walworth County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | La Grange, 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 671 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 449 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 356 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMKX 132332 SVRMKE WIC127-140000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE-SULLIVAN WI 631 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WALWORTH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 631 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF ELKHORN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE PELL LAKE...FONTANA AND COMO 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 uSHELTER IMMEDIATELY! LAT...LON 4283 8871 4254 8869 4252 8834 4280 8831 HENTZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Iowa, Lafayette, Sauk | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Walworth | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Dane | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 6:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Walworth | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.