Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 272
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 12, 2000, 2:30 PM CDT for Menominee County, Michigan; 34 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 2000, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Menominee County, MI, Adams County, WI, Brown County, WI, Calumet County, WI, Columbia County, WI, Dane County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Door County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Green County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Iowa County, WI, Jefferson County, WI, Juneau County, WI, Kewaunee County, WI, Lafayette County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Marquette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI, Portage County, WI, Rock County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI, Walworth County, WI, Washington County, WI, Waukesha County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Winnebago County, WI
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Shawano | 62 min |
| May 12, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oconto | 47 min |
| May 12, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Door, Kewaunee | 64 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 |
| May 12, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Calumet, Manitowoc | 50 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegan, Arenac, Barry, Bay, Calhoun, Clare and 39 more | 6 hr |
| May 12, 12:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arenac, Bay, Benzie, Clare, Crawford, Gladwin and 24 more | 5 hr |
| May 12, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allegan, Barry, Berrien, Calhoun, Cass, Clinton and 8 more | 6 hr |
| May 12, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcona, Alpena, Antrim, Arenac, Bay, Benzie and 35 more | 5 hr |
| May 11, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dane, Dodge, Grant, Green, Iowa, Jefferson and 8 more | 6 hr |
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.