Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2002, 4:54 PM CDT for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 36 min. 4 reports 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 15, 2002, 4:54 PM CDT (21:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2002, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Milwaukee County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 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 15, 4:59 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Timmerman Arpt, WI | |
| Jun 15, 5:23 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | General Mitchell Arp, WI | |
| Jun 15, 5:29 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | General Mitchell Arp, WI | |
| Jun 15, 5:32 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Oak Creek, 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 nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1176 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMKX 152154 SVRMKE WIC079-152230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 454 PM CDT SAT JUN 15 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MILWAUKEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 454 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BROWN DEER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FOX POINT AT 500 PM CDT. GLENDALE AT 505 PM CDT. MILWAUKEE AT 510 PM CDT. ST. FRANCIS AT 525 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 HAIL UP TO 3/4 OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE STORMS PATH...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. ZAJDEL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Ozaukee, Washington | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 2:39 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 66 min | |
| Jun 15, 2:39 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 66 min | |
| Jun 15, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 31 min |
| Jun 15, 3:47 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 2 hr | |
| Jun 15, 3:47 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 2 hr | |
| Jun 15, 3:47 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 2 hr | |
| Jun 15, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Racine | 44 min |
| Jun 15, 5:57 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 108 min | |
| Jun 15, 5:57 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 108 min | |
| Jun 15, 5:57 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 108 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.