Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 688
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 14, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT for 28 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT (04:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2000, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Adams County, WI, Barron County, WI, Brown County, WI, Buffalo County, WI, Calumet County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Clark County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Juneau County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Marquette County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Portage County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI, Taylor County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Winnebago County, WI, Wood County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 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.
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waupaca | 51 min |
| Aug 14, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Outagamie | 57 min |
| Aug 14, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Chippewa, Rusk | 44 min |
| Aug 14, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Winnebago | 56 min |
| Aug 15, 12:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Winnebago | 27 min |
| Aug 15, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Brown, Calumet | 65 min |
| Aug 15, 12:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 38 min |
| Aug 15, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac, Sheboygan | 64 min |
| Aug 15, 12:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Manitowoc | 41 min |
| Aug 15, 12:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GRB | Marathon | 4 hr |
| Aug 15, 1:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark | 54 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 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
- 1190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 666 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
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 14, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Door, Florence, Forest, Kewaunee, Langlade and 7 more | 5 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.