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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Milwaukee, WI

August 21, 2002Milwaukee County, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 21, 2002, 8:08 PM CDT for Milwaukee County, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 67 min. 3 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: Aug 21, 2002, 8:08 PM CDT (01:08 UTC)
Expired: Aug 21, 2002, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Milwaukee County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:11 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
Aug 21, 8:12 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 56 E	West Allis, WI
Aug 21, 8:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 70 E	Timmerman Arpt, WI
Aug 21, 8:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 65 E	Cudahy, 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 142 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 216 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -110 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 665 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 257 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

867 
WUUS53 KMKX 220108
SVRMKE
WIC079-089-220215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
808 PM CDT WED AUG 21 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  OZAUKEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN
  MILWAUKEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 808 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH
  DAMAGING WINDS LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES WEST OF
  CEDARBURG TO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BROWN DEER TO 4 MILES WEST OF
  HALES CORNERS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  WEST ALLIS BY 810 PM CDT.
  SAUKVILLE BY 815 PM CDT.
  PORT WASHINGTON BY 820 PM CDT.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF STORMS...YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY

THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY
FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE
AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT.

EISE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 21, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane, Jefferson	59 min
Aug 21, 7:25 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		65 min
Aug 21, 7:25 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		65 min
Aug 21, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Walworth	61 min
Aug 21, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Waukesha	27 min
Aug 21, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Kenosha, Racine	60 min
Aug 21, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Washington	14 min
Aug 21, 8:16 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		89 min
Aug 21, 8:16 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		89 min
Aug 21, 8:16 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		89 min
Aug 21, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Green, Rock	53 min
Aug 22, 4:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MKX	Lafayette	3 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.