Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 2002, 9:28 PM CDT for Dodge County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 2002, 9:28 PM CDT (02:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2002, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Dodge County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 1990 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1037 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
754 WUUS53 KMKX 030228 SVRMKE WIC027-030330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 928 PM CDT MON SEP 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DODGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 928 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF BEAVER DAM...OR ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTH OF WAUPUN...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HORICON AT 935 PM CDT. KEKOSKEE AT 940 PM CDT. BROWNSVILLE AT 945 PM CDT. LOMIRA AT 950 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. LAT...LON 4362 8889 4343 8893 4335 8845 4362 8843 DAVIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green Lake, Marquette | 46 min |
| Sep 2, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 57 min |
| Sep 2, 9:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 53 min |
| Sep 2, 9:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 53 min |
| Sep 2, 9:35 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 2 hr | |
| Sep 2, 9:35 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 2 hr | |
| Sep 2, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Washington | 58 min |
| Sep 2, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.