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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Milwaukee, WI

June 13, 2000Kenosha County, Racine County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT for Kenosha County, Racine County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Kenosha County, WI, Racine County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 198 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2000-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2000-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
591 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KMKX 132346
SVRMKE
WIC059-101-140015-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE-SULLIVAN WI
645 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  RACINE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN
  KENOSHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 645 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR EAGLE LAKE...OR ABOUT 3 MILES WEST OF
  UNION GROVE...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE RACINE AND KENOSHA 

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!

LAT...LON 4282 8826 4252 8825 4253 8783 4282 8783

HENTZ

The office that day

Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 2:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXIowa, Lafayette, Sauk6 hr
Jun 13, 4:24 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXWalworth4 hr
Jun 13, 4:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXDane4 hr
Jun 13, 6:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXWalworth4 hr
Jun 13, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXWalworth29 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.