Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 661
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 8, 2000, 4:15 PM CDT for Dickinson County, Iron County, Menominee County, Michigan; 28 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2000, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Dickinson County, MI, Iron County, MI, Menominee County, MI, Ashland County, WI, Bayfield County, WI, Brown County, WI, Calumet County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Clark County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Florence County, WI, Forest County, WI, Iron County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Portage County, WI, Price County, WI, Rusk County, WI, Sawyer County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Taylor County, WI, Vilas County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Wood County, WI
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rusk | 33 min |
| Aug 8, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Taylor | 51 min |
| Aug 8, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Taylor | 60 min |
| Aug 8, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marathon | 60 min |
| Aug 8, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Chippewa, Polk, Rusk | 61 min |
| Aug 8, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Marathon | 40 min |
| Aug 8, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Marathon | 30 min |
| Aug 8, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Portage | 38 min |
| Aug 8, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Dunn | 60 min |
| Aug 8, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Menominee | 32 min |
| Aug 8, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark, Taylor | 53 min |
| Aug 8, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Waupaca | 38 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -349 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 922 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 11:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alcona, Alpena, Antrim, Arenac, Bay, Benzie and 22 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 7, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barron, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Crawford, Dunn and 18 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.