Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2001, 7:01 PM CDT for Lafayette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 59 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 14, 2001, 7:01 PM CDT (00:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lafayette County, WI
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Shullsburg, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 2314 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1316 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 16.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMKX 150002 SVRMKE WIC065-150100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 701 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 701 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM DUBUQUE TO 4 MILES NORTH OF MORRISON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... BENTON AT 710 PM CDT. BELMONT AT 720 PM CDT. DARLINGTON AT 730 PM CDT. SOUTH WAYNE AT 735 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! DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE. COLLAR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Green, Rock | 65 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.