Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2002, 6:32 PM CDT for Dodge County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 58 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 21, 2002, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2002, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dodge County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 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 21, 6:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 E | Fox Lake, 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 1427 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 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 212332 SVRMKE WIC027-220030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 632 PM CDT FRI JUN 21 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DODGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 632 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR FOX LAKE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF BEAVER DAM...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BEAVER DAM AT 645 PM CDT. LOWELL AT 705 PM CDT. JUNEAU AT 710 PM CDT. HUSTISFORD AT 715 PM CDT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. COLLAR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Green Lake, Marquette | 52 min |
| Jun 21, 5:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Columbia | 27 min |
| Jun 21, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sauk | 53 min |
| Jun 21, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dodge | 38 min |
| Jun 21, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sauk | 49 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.