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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Milwaukee, WI

May 6, 2005Jefferson County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2005, 8:16 PM CDT for Jefferson County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 44 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 6, 2005, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2005, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jefferson County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:19 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3101 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMKX 070116
SVRMKX
WIC055-070200-
/O.NEW.KMKX.SV.W.0042.050507T0116Z-050507T0200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
816 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 813 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A SEVERE   
THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL IN WATERLOO. THIS STORM WAS 
LOCATED NEAR WATERLOO...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WATERTOWN AROUND 840 PM CDT...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4320 8900 4313 8900 4308 8872 4319 8869

$$

GEHRING

3 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KMKX 070128
SVSMKX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
827 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 2005

WIC055-070200-
/O.CON.KMKX.SV.W.0042.000000T0000Z-050507T0200Z/
JEFFERSON-
827 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR
NORTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY...

AT 824 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL. 
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HUBBLETON...OR JUST NORTH OF LAKE 
MILLS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WATERTOWN BY 840 PM CDT
  PIPERSVILLE BY 850 PM CDT

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL IN WATERLOO. 
SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM 
WINDOWS

LAT...LON 4320 8892 4310 8894 4308 8862 4318 8860

$$

GEHRING

000 
WWUS53 KMKX 070137
SVSMKX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
837 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 2005

WIC055-070200-
/O.CON.KMKX.SV.W.0042.000000T0000Z-050507T0200Z/
JEFFERSON-
837 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR NORTH
CENTRAL JEFFERSON COUNTY...

AT 837 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL. 
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES WEST OF PIPERSVILLE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES
NORTHEAST OF LAKE MILLS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PIPERSVILLE BY 850 PM CDT
  IXONIA BY 855 PM CDT

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW 
INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

LAT...LON 4316 8882 4311 8886 4303 8855 4314 8854

$$

GEHRING

000 
WWUS53 KMKX 070146
SVSMKX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
846 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 2005

WIC055-070200-
/O.CON.KMKX.SV.W.0042.000000T0000Z-050507T0200Z/
JEFFERSON-
846 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR
NORTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY...

AT 842 PM CDT...A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEE REPORTED QUARTER 
SIZE HAIL 1 MILE NORTH OF LAKE MILLS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR 
MILFORD...OR ABOUT NEAR LAKE MILLS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF WATERTOWN IS ALSO CAPABLE OF 
PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WILL MOVE EAST ALONG AND JUST NORTH
OF INTERSTATE 94 REACHING WAUKESHA COUNTY BY 915 PM. 

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MILFORD BY 846 PM CDT
  JOHNSON CREEK BY 855 PM CDT
  8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PIPERSVILLE BY 900 PM CDT

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL. SEEK 
SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

LAT...LON 4315 8890 4308 8892 4303 8855 4317 8854

$$

GEHRING

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 May 6, 2:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 2:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
230 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 2005

.DISCUSSION...FORECAST CONCERNS FOCUS ON PRECIP THREAT DURING SHORT
TERM PERIOD.  ENHANCED FORCING ASSOCD WITH LEFT EXIT REGION OF 300MB
JET PUSHING SOUTHEAST OF FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON.  MRNG SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS DEPOSITED BTWN ONE HALF INCH AND THREE QUARTERS
INCH IN SOME LOCATIONS.  ATTENTION FOR REST OF THIS AFTN AND EVE
FOCUSES ON WEAK LOBE OF S/W VORTICITY OVR NRN WI AND APPROACHING
WEAK SFC BOUNDARY. ELEVATED LAPSE RATES AROUND 7 DEGREES AND SPC
MESOANALYSIS PAGE SHOWS MUCAPE VALUES OF 1500 J/KG OVR CENTRAL WI AT
18Z...AND RUC SOUNDING SHOWS FZLVL OF 9300FT.  CONVECTION BREAKING
OUT ALONG AXIS OF HIGHER DEWPTS OVR NERN WI SO WL CARRY SCT T INTO
NRN AND ERN AREAS REST OF AFT AND EARLY EVE...WHERE BEST LOW LEVEL
CONVERGENCE LOCATED...DMSHG TO CHC THIS EVE.

BEHIND THIS LAST WEAK FORCING AREA...ENHANCED SUBSIDENCE FM AXIS OF
UPR LEVEL JET SHIFTING EWD TNGT WITH RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION SETTLING
INTO WRN GREAT LAKES LTR TNGT. WINDS BECOMING NELY TNGT BEHIND
CDFNT.  WITH DEWPTS IN UPR 40S TO MID 50S AND WINDS BECOMING ONSHORE
NEAR LAKE SHORE...POTENTIAL FOR FOG DVLPG BUT LWRG DEWPTS MAY DRY
OUT ATMOSPHERE BEFORE HAND.  WL ADD PATCHY FOG ONLY IN ERN AREAS FOR
NOW.

DEWPTS OVERDONE BY GUIDANCE FOR LTR TNGT INTO SAT.  MUCH MORE STABLE
CONDITIONS ACROSS FORECAST AREA ON SATURDAY SO PULLED POPS IN
CENTRAL AND ERN AREAS BUT LEFT IN EAST...CLOSER TO VICINITY OF
STRENGTHENING WMFNT OVR IA...NRN IL.  LOW LEVEL JET OF 40 TO 50 KTS
FOCUSED INTO SRN MN/W CNTRL WI SAT NIGHT AND THICKNESS FIELD MAY
CARRY SOME OF THE NIGHT TIME CONVECTION INTO CENTRAL/SRN WI LATE IN
THE NIGHT INTO SUN MRNG.  THICKNESS RIDGE SETS UP OVER WI LATER SUN
INTO SUN NIGHT AND SECOND WEAKER LLJ WITH LOW LEVEL MOISTURE FLUX
CONV...HENCE WL CONT WITH MID LEVEL POPS AT THIS TIME FRAME WITH
BEST THREAT OF WIDESPREAD PRECIP MON INTO MON NGT.

ALL EXTENDED GUIDANCE INCLUDING GFS...UKMO...ECMWF AND CANADIAN IN
GOOD AGREEMENT ON CARRYING S/W TROF THRU WESTERN GREAT LAKES ON
MON/TUE TIME FRAME...HWVR UKMT AND ECMWF TAKE FRONTAL BOUNDARY WELL
SOUTH INTO THE MID MS VALLEY WHILE GFS HOLDS FRONT FARTHER NORTH.
LATEST GFS DOES CONTINUES TREND IN SLOWING SYSTEM DOWN EARLY NEXT
WEEK...HENCE WL LEAN TWD GFS SOLUTION BUT PREFER FARTHER SOUTHWARD
PENETRATION OF COOL FRONT.  HENCE WL BEEF UP POPS TO LKLY CATEGORY
AS MAIN S/W TROF MOVES THRU MON INTO MON NGT.

5H HEIGHT ANOMOLY SLIGHTLY ABV NORMAL WITH FLATTENING UPSTREAM TROF
CENTERED ON 05/14...HENCE UNSETTLED WEATHER WILL CONTINUE THROUGH
THE LATER PERIODS OF NEXT WEEK.  FAIR AGREEMENT IN GFS ENSEMBLES IN
EARLY PERIODS OF EXTENDED PERIOD.  FRONTAL BOUNDARY OVER CENTRAL MS
VLY EXPCD TO PUSH NORTHWARD WED INTO THU RETURNING PRECIP THREAT
ACRS SRN WI BY THU.  ENSEMBLE POPS QUITE HIGH FOR WED NGT INTO THU
TIME FRAME.

&&

.MKX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE.

&&

MBK

Hazardous weather outlook, May 6, 5:00 AM CDT, 15 hours 16 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
500 AM CDT FRI MAY 6 2005

WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-061600-
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 FRI MAY 6 2005

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE CRITERIA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN WISCONSIN
SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY EVENING. THERE WILL BE ANOTHER CHANCE
OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

&&

DETAILED WEATHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON THE NWS MILWAUKEE
WEB-PAGE...    WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/MKX      /LOWER CASE/

LMZ643>646-665-061600-
SHEBOYGAN WI TO WINTHROP HARBOR ILLINOIS
500 AM CDT FRI MAY 6 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WISCONSIN WATERS OF LAKE
MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

&&

DETAILED WEATHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON THE NWS MILWAUKEE
WEB-PAGE...    WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/MKX      /LOWER CASE/

ZAJDEL

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 6, 7:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
702 PM CDT FRI MAY 06 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0700 PM     HAIL             1 S DOUSMAN             43.00N 88.47W
05/06/2005  0.75 INCH        WAUKESHA           WI   NWS EMPLOYEE

&&

PSPEICHE

Local storm report, May 6, 7:21 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
721 PM CDT FRI MAY 06 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0717 PM     HAIL             NORTH PRAIRIE           42.94N 88.40W
05/06/2005  1.00 INCH        WAUKESHA           WI   TRAINED SPOTTER

0715 PM     HAIL             6 S ROCKDALE            42.89N 89.03W
05/06/2005  0.88 INCH        DANE               WI   TRAINED SPOTTER

0705 PM     HAIL             WALES                   43.00N 88.38W
05/06/2005  0.75 INCH        WAUKESHA           WI   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            DIME SIZED HAIL

&&

PSPEICHE

Local storm report, May 6, 7:29 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
729 PM CDT FRI MAY 06 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0704 PM     HAIL             DOUSMAN                 43.01N 88.47W
05/06/2005  0.88 INCH        WAUKESHA           WI   PUBLIC

            NICKEL SIZE HAIL AT HWY GG AND RUE PARC

0718 PM     HAIL             NORTH PRAIRIE           42.94N 88.40W
05/06/2005  0.75 INCH        WAUKESHA           WI   PUBLIC

            PEA TO PENNY SIZE HAIL FELL BETWEEN 709 AND 718 PM

&&

PSPEICHE

Local storm report, May 6, 7:30 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
730 PM CDT FRI MAY 06 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0726 PM     HAIL             8 E FORT ATKINSON       42.93N 88.68W
05/06/2005  0.75 INCH        JEFFERSON          WI   AMATEUR RADIO

            DIME SIZED HAIL 8 E OF FORT ATKINSON

&&

PSPEICHE

Local storm report, May 6, 7:39 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
739 PM CDT FRI MAY 06 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0720 PM     HAIL             MUKWONAGO               42.87N 88.33W
05/06/2005  0.88 INCH        WAUKESHA           WI   PUBLIC

            GROUND COVERED WITH HAIL IN SOME AREAS...LEAVES KNOCKED
            OFF OF TREES

&&

PSPEICHE

Local storm report, May 6, 8:15 PM CDT, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
815 PM CDT FRI MAY 06 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0810 PM     HAIL             WATERLOO                43.18N 88.99W
05/06/2005  0.88 INCH        JEFFERSON          WI   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

DHANSING

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane, Jefferson, Rock	70 min
May 6, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Racine, Waukesha	52 min
May 6, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Walworth	33 min
May 6, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Jefferson, Waukesha	34 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.