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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Milwaukee, WI

August 3, 2003Columbia County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2003, 3:15 PM CDT for Columbia County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 30 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 3, 2003, 3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2003, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Columbia County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 209 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -117 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 952 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 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.

532 
WUUS53 KMKX 032015
SVRMKX
WIC021-032045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
315 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 315 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF DOYLESTOWN...OR ABOUT 7 MILES
  WEST OF COLUMBUS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RIO AT 320 PM CDT.
  COLUMBUS AT 330 PM CDT.
  FALL RIVER AT 335 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

LAT...LON 4338 8935 4328 8920 4333 8903 4359 8903

$$

DAVIS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia	59 min
Aug 2, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dodge	67 min
Aug 3, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Washington	32 min
Aug 3, 2:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MKX	Kenosha, Racine	3 hr
Aug 3, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane	25 min
Aug 3, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Washington	37 min
Aug 3, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane	47 min
Aug 3, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Jefferson	61 min
Aug 3, 3:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MKX	Jefferson, Waukesha	4 hr
Aug 3, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Rock	45 min

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.