Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 227

May 14, 200118 counties in Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 14, 2001, 9:00 AM CDT for 18 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 2001, 9:00 AM CDT (14:00 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 2001, 2:00 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Adams County, WI, Ashland County, WI, Barron County, WI, Bayfield County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Clark County, WI, Douglas County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Juneau County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Price County, WI, Rusk County, WI, Sawyer County, WI, Taylor County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, Washburn County, WI, Wood County, WI

Warnings issued inside it

8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 9:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXClark, Taylor63 min
May 14, 9:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRusk45 min
May 14, 9:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHSawyer, Washburn54 min
May 14, 9:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa23 min
May 14, 9:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBPortage, Wood66 min
May 14, 10:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXClark47 min
May 14, 10:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXAdams50 min
May 14, 10:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBPortage, Waushara, Wood74 min

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 249 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°0°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

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 10:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Calumet, Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac and 20 more4 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.