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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 2004, 2:22 AM CDT for Racine County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 38 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 27, 2004, 2:22 AM CDT (07:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2004, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Racine County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 1:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 2194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1006 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMKX 270722 SVRMKX WIC101-270800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 222 AM CDT FRI AUG 27 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN RACINE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 300 AM CDT * AT 219 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STURTEVANT...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... STURTEVANT AROUND 230 AM CDT... RACINE AROUND 235 AM CDT... WIND POINT AROUND 240 AM CDT... THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS LAT...LON 4267 8805 4269 8780 4276 8715 4286 8777 $$ DAVIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa, Lafayette | 53 min |
| Aug 26, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Sauk | 44 min |
| Aug 27, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green Lake | 64 min |
| Aug 27, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Jefferson, Rock, Walworth | 63 min |
| Aug 27, 12:56 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 3 hr | |
| Aug 27, 12:56 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 3 hr | |
| Aug 27, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sheboygan | 66 min |
| Aug 27, 1:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth | 42 min |
| Aug 27, 2:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha | 53 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.