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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Milwaukee, WI

June 28, 2003Sauk County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2003, 4:01 PM CDT for Sauk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 44 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
Jun 28, 2003, 4:01 PM CDT (21:01 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2003, 4:45 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sauk County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 190 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2003-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 13 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2003-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -48 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-171 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1264 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMKX 282101
SVRMKX
WIC111-282145-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
400 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SAUK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT

* AT 400 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF PLAIN...OR ABOUT 13 MILES EAST
  OF RICHLAND CENTER...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PLAIN AT 410 PM CDT.

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

HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM 3 
MILES WEST OF PLAIN. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT 
YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

LAT...LON 4340 9017 4320 9017 4319 9007 4329 8975

$$

ZAJDEL/WOOD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 4:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDane, Iowa66 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.