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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Milwaukee, WI

May 28, 2003Rock County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2003, 1:53 PM CDT for Rock County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 67 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
May 28, 2003, 1:53 PM CDT (18:53 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2003, 3:00 PM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Rock County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:55 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 168 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 2003-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2003-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1774 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
10 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.

347 
WUUS53 KMKX 281853
SVRMKX
WIC105-282000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
153 PM CDT WED MAY 28 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT

* AT 153 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF JANESVILLE...OR ABOUT 4
  MILES EAST OF EVANSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  JANESVILLE AT 215 PM CDT.
  CLINTON AT 240 PM CDT.

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

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 4252 8875 4284 8914 4282 8935 4252 8900

$$

REM

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.