Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2004, 4:37 PM CDT for Racine County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 23 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 2004, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2004, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 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), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 5:05 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Racine, WI | HAIL COVERED THE GROUND |
| Jun 23, 5:07 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | Racine, WI | REPORTED AT THE RACINE PD |
| Jun 23, 5:08 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Racine, WI | INTERSECTION OF HWY 20 AND OHIO |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1093 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
731
WUUS53 KMKX 232137
SVRMKX
WIC101-232200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
437 PM CDT WED JUN 23 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
RACINE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN
* UNTIL 500 PM CDT
* AT 429 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ROCHESTER...OR
ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EAST TROY...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
7 MILES NORTH OF UNION GROVE BY 445 PM CDT.
8 MILES NORTH OF STURTEVANT BY 455 PM CDT.
WIND POINT BY 500 PM CDT.
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
LAT...LON 4270 8777 4270 8777 4267 8810 4268 8823
4267 8827 4268 8828 4284 8829 4283 8781
4280 8780 4278 8775
$$
REMWhat 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 Jun 23, 2:46 AM CDT, 13 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 2:46 AM CDT, 13 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 246 AM CDT WED JUN 23 2004 .DISCUSSION...FORECAST FOCUS IS ON PRECIPITATION CHANCES AND TIMING INTO WEEKEND. IN THE SHORT TERM...SURFACE BOUNDARY EXPECTED TO SAG THROUGH SOUTHERN WISCONSIN TODAY...WHILE COLD UPPER LOW ROTATES ACROSS THE REGION. ETA AND GFS ARE BOTH SIMILAR IN PREDICTING STRONG DYNAMICS ACROSS THE SOUTH WHICH COULD RESULT IN SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. CAPES AROUND 1700...LI/S AROUND -5...STRONG Q VECTOR CONVERGENCE...700 OMEGA...WBZERO AROUND 8K FT. ALSO...INVERTED V SOUNDING AND TT/S NEAR 58. WET MICROBURST AND HAIL MOST LIKELY... ALTHOUGH HELICITY ON ETA AROUND 140. CONDITIONS PERSIST INTO EVENING HOURS WITH GRADUAL STABILIZING BY MID/LATE EVENING. ALTHOUGH SURFACE BOUNDARY AND SURFACE BASED DYNAMICS SHIFT TO NORTHERN ILLINOIS THURSDAY. OVERRUNNING OF H850 BARO ZONE EXPECTED TO FOCUS PRECIPITATION ACROSS CWA THURSDAY. H500 REMAINS VERY COLD AND SHORT WAVE FORECAST TO SWING THROUGH REGION. LOTS OF H850 MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND H700 OMEGA. WBZERO AROUND 7K FEET. STRONG Q VECTOR CONVERGENCE AND H850 FRONTOGENESIS FOCUSED ACROSS CWA. FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...GENERALLY QUIET WEATHER EXPECTED WITH WEAK SURFACE RIDGE...ALTHOUGH MODELS HINT AT REINFORCING COOL BOUNDARY WHICH MAY FOCUS SHOWERS. IN ADDITION...COLD UNSTABLE UPPER LOW CONTINUES TO ROTATE ACROSS SOUTHERN CANADA AND GREAT LAKES REGION. DAYTIME HEATING ON UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE MAY OVERCOME DRY MID LAYERS TO PRODUCE SHOWERS...ESPECIALLY IF COOL BOUNDARY DEVELOPS. && .MKX...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 23, 5:00 AM CDT, 11 hours 37 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 500 AM CDT WED JUN 23 2004 WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-241000- COLUMBIA-DANE-DODGE-FOND DU LAC-GREEN-GREEN LAKE-IOWA-JEFFERSON- KENOSHA-LAFAYETTE-MARQUETTE-MILWAUKEE-OZAUKEE-RACINE-ROCK-SAUK- SHEBOYGAN-WALWORTH-WASHINGTON-WAUKESHA- 500 AM CDT WED JUN 23 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHERN WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER GROUPS MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. ZAJDEL
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 23, 4:30 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
430 PM CDT WED JUN 23 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0427 PM HAIL HALES CORNERS 42.94N 88.05W
06/23/2004 1.00 INCH MILWAUKEE WI TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
BORGHOFFThe office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth | 29 min |
| Jun 23, 4:27 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 93 min | |
| Jun 23, 4:27 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 93 min | |
| Jun 23, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Racine | 27 min |
| Jun 23, 5:56 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 94 min | |
| Jun 23, 5:56 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 94 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.