Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2000, 2:44 PM CDT for Jefferson County, Walworth County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 61 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
- Jun 30, 2000, 2:44 PM CDT (19:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2000, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jefferson County, WI, Walworth County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 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 30, 3:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Tibbet, 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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1314 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
156 WUUS53 KMKX 301944 SVRMKE WIC055-127-302045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 244 PM CDT FRI JUN 30 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN NORTHERN WALWORTH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 243 PM CDT...LAW ENFORECEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR FORT ATKINSON...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WHITEWATER AT 255 PM CDT. PALMYRA AT 315 PM CDT. ELKHORN AT 335 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock, Walworth | 58 min |
| Jun 30, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth | 65 min |
| Jun 30, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth | 48 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.