Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2002, 7:34 PM CDT for Kenosha County, Racine County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 56 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
- Aug 1, 2002, 7:34 PM CDT (00:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2002, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kenosha County, WI, Racine County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 7:48 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Rochester, 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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -368 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
202 WUUS53 KMKX 020034 SVRMKE WIC059-101-020130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 733 PM CDT THU AUG 1 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RACINE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN NORTHERN KENOSHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 733 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF BURLINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... EAGLE LAKE AT 740 PM CDT. UNION GROVE AT 745 PM CDT. STURTEVANT AT 755 PM CDT. HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. GEHRING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth | 31 min |
| Aug 1, 7:38 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 112 min | |
| Aug 1, 7:38 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 112 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.