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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Milwaukee, WI

August 1, 2003Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2003, 4:07 AM CDT for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 53 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: Aug 1, 2003, 4:07 AM CDT (09:07 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 2003, 5:00 AM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Milwaukee County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:08 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 345 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1562 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 170 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

844 
WUUS53 KMKX 010907
SVRMKX
WIC079-011000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
407 AM CDT FRI AUG 1 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 AM CDT

* AT 407 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF WAUWATOSA...OR ABOUT NEAR
  MENOMONEE FALLS...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RIVER HILLS AT 415 AM CDT.
  FOX POINT AT 420 AM 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.

LAT...LON 4296 8802 4299 8807 4320 8807 4321 8789
          4299 8784 4296 8807 4320 8807 4321 8789
          4306 8785

$$

HENTZ

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Milwaukee, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 1, 2:53 AM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 2:53 AM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
300 PM CDT THU JUL 31 2003

FCST FOCUS ON UPPER LOW INTO MON.

CLOSED OFF UPR LOW WL ROTATE OVR RGN THRU MON. AMS WL RMN UNSTBL
THRU PD...SPCLY DURING AFTN HEATING. WL KEEP CHC TSTMS GOING
THRU PD. MODELS IN FAIR AGRMT WITH POPS AND TEMPS.

.MKX...NONE.

MK

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 31, 5:00 AM CDT, 23 hours 7 minutes before

WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-011000-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
500 AM CDT THU JUL 31 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST
WISCONSIN.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING OVER ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. LARGE
HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE THE PRIMARY HAZARD...AN
ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE.  A LOW PRESSURE TROUGH AHEAD OF
AN UPPER LOW OVER NORTHERN MINNESOTA WILL BRING MORE SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS.  SOME OF THE STORMS WILL CONTAIN HEAVY RAINFALL.
ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN IS NOT ANTICIPATED...A FEW AREAS
COULD EXPERIENCE SOME URBAN OR LOW LAND FLOODING DUE TO THE SLOW
MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN ON FRIDAY.
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE POSSIBLE.
THE UPPER LOW WILL REACH NORTHERN WISCONSIN FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.
STEEP LAPSE RATES FROM THE COLD AIR ALOFT...AND WARM MOIST AIR IN
LOW LEVELS...WILL RESULT IN A CONTINUATION OF A MODERATELY UNSTABLE
AIRMASS.  SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE SATURDAY THROUGH
MONDAY AS THE UPPER LOW CONTINUES ITS SLOW MOVEMENT INTO LOWER
MICHIGAN.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

STORM SPOTTER GROUPS MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND
AGAIN FRIDAY.

HENTZ

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 1, 2:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
222 AM CDT FRI AUG 01 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0213 AM    BRODHEAD                  WI   1 INCH HAIL
08/01/03   GREEN                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Aug 1, 2:37 AM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
237 AM CDT FRI AUG 01 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0232 AM    FOOTVILLE                 WI   .5 INCH HAIL
08/01/03   ROCK                           REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Aug 1, 3:06 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
306 AM CDT FRI AUG 01 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0232 AM    MILTON                    WI   1 INCH HAIL
08/01/03   ROCK                           REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Aug 1, 3:20 AM CDT, 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
320 AM CDT FRI AUG 01 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0315 AM    1 S LAKE MILLS            WI   1 INCH HAIL
08/01/03   JEFFERSON                      REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Aug 1, 3:28 AM CDT, 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
328 AM CDT FRI AUG 01 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0320 AM    LAKE MILLS                WI   1 INCH HAIL
08/01/03   JEFFERSON                      REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
                                          NWS EMPLOYEE.

Local storm report, Aug 1, 3:29 AM CDT, 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
329 AM CDT FRI AUG 01 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0327 AM    LAKE MILLS                WI   1.25 INCH HAIL
08/01/03   JEFFERSON                      REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
                                          NWS EMPLOYEE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 1, 2:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Green, Rock	58 min
Aug 1, 2:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane, Jefferson, Rock	58 min
Aug 1, 3:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dodge, Washington, Waukesha	40 min
Aug 1, 3:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Ozaukee	66 min
Aug 1, 3:58 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		2 hr
Aug 1, 3:58 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		2 hr
Aug 1, 3:58 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		2 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.