Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 2002, 9:55 PM CDT for Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 2002, 9:55 PM CDT (02:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2002, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fond du Lac County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:56 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 86 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.
461 WUUS53 KMKX 030255 SVRMKE WIC039-030330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 954 PM CDT MON SEP 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEAST FOND DU LAC COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 954 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CAMPBELLSPORT...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF KEWASKUM...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL FOND DU LAC COUNTY AT 1000 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. 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, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge | 62 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 |
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.