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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Milwaukee, WI

May 14, 2001Dodge County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2001, 10:26 AM CDT for Dodge County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 64 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
May 14, 2001, 10:26 AM CDT (15:26 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 2001, 11:30 AM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Dodge County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:27 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, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 126 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 2001-05-14Temperature 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°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 2001-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1267 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
152 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 141527
SVRMKE
WIC027-141630-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
1026 AM CDT MON MAY 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DODGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 1130 AM CDT

* AT 1026 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF BEAVER DAM...MOVING       
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. AT 1025 AM...DIME SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT   
  RANDOLPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HORICON AT 1035 AM CDT.
  IRON RIDGE AT 1040 AM CDT.
  MAYVILLE AT 1050 AM CDT.
  KEKOSKEE AT 1055 AM 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!

LAT...LON 4358 8849 4345 8895 4324 8887 4326 8843


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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 10:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXJefferson66 min
May 14, 11:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXGreen Lake, Marquette53 min
May 14, 11:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXWaukesha58 min
May 14, 11:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXKenosha, Racine, Walworth65 min
May 14, 11:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXColumbia, Dodge, Fond du Lac67 min
May 14, 12:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXJefferson, Waukesha62 min
May 14, 12:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXWashington62 min
May 14, 1:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXMilwaukee, Racine67 min
May 14, 1:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXKenosha67 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.