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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2006, 2:10 PM CDT for 4 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 2006, 2:10 PM CDT (19:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2006, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Fond du Lac County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI, Washington County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 1:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 3786 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1027 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
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 Jul 17, 2:00 PM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 2:00 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 200 PM CDT MON JUL 17 2006 .DISCUSSION...FCST FOCUS IS ON HANDLING POPS TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING. VERY COMPLICATED WX PATTERN THE NEXT 36HRS WITH 3 DISTINCT FEATURES PLAYING PARTS IN THE SCENARIO TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. H5 S/W WITH A SIGNIFICANT THERMODYNAMIC CONTRIBUTION ASSOC WITH H8 BAROCLINIC ZONE TO THE SOUTH IS GENERATING LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS FM SRN WI BACK SOUTHWEST INTO IL/IA. THEN THERE IS THE ROGUE MCV DROPPING OUT OF SE SDKTA ERLY THIS AFTN...WITH A PRONOUNCED CIRCULATION SEEN IN THE RADAR LOOP. THIS FEATURE HAS A MIND OF IT/S OWN AND NOT HANDLED BY THE MODELS AT ALL. THIS IS A LONG LIVED COMPLEX FROM LAST NIGHT. WV IMAGERY SUGGESTS IT IS TURNING EASTERLY...BUT NOT ENTIRLY SURE THIS WILL SURVIVE INTO THE EVENING... ESPECIALLY AS IT PUSHES INTO AIR ALREADY MASSSAGED BY THE RAINFALL DOWNSTREAM TODAY. THE THIRD ELEMENT IS THE NEXT H5 S/W PUSHING EAST OUT OF THE NRN ROCKIES AND PROGD TO TRACK OVR LK SUPR AND NRN WI ON SAT. THE SCENARIO HAS BEEN THAT THE 1ST AND 3RD FEATURES WOULD INTERACT WITH TIME...PRODUCING AN INVERTED SFC TROF OVER THE AREA BY SATURDAY. SURFACE CYCLOGENESIS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DYNAMICS ALONG THE SRN H8 BAROCLINIC ZONE WOULD OCCUR TONIGHT...WITH AN INVERTED TROF DEVELOPING TO THE NW FM THE SFC LOW ASSOCIATED WITH THE ARRIVAL OF THE H5 S/W TO THE NORTH. THIS FIRST BATCH OF PRECIP SHOULD MOSTLY MOVE THROUGH BY EARLY THIS EVENING. SOME ENHANCEMENT OCCURING ON LEADING EDGE OF PRECIP SURGE INTO MIDDLE OF CWA...BUT PROFILERS AND MORNING RAOB DATA SHOW THE LLV JET TURNING WESTERLY TO THE SOUTH WITH LITTLE SUPPORT FOR PROLONGED LIFT THIS FAR NORTH OF THE BAROCLINIC ZONE. WOULD LIKE TO DIMINISH PRECIP TO A SLIGHT CHANCE AFTER MIDNIGHT...THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING AS AREA IS BETWEEN SYSTEMS DURING THIS TIME. AS UPR S/W TO THE NORTH CLIPS THE AREA ON SATURDAY ACCOMPANIED BY INVERTED SFC TROF...LINGERING MOISTURE AND AFTN HEATING SHOULD SUPPORT ENOUGH INSTABILITY TO JUSTIFY THE SHOWERS AND ISOLD STORMS SATURDAY AFTN AND EVENING. THEN HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FOR SUNDAY AND MONDAY...WITH THE NEXT CHANCE FOR RAIN ON LATE MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY WITH ARRIVAL OF CANADIAN FRONT. && .MKX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && DAVIS
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 17, 11:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1100 AM CDT MON JUL 17 2006 WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-180945- MARQUETTE-GREEN LAKE-FOND DU LAC-SHEBOYGAN-SAUK-COLUMBIA-DODGE- WASHINGTON-OZAUKEE-IOWA-DANE-JEFFERSON-WAUKESHA-MILWAUKEE- LAFAYETTE-GREEN-ROCK-WALWORTH-RACINE-KENOSHA- 1100 AM CDT MON JUL 17 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING OVER ALL OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN. THERE ARE SEVERAL THREATS. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. IN ADDITION THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR AN ISOLATED TORNADO OR TWO. IT WILL BE HOT AND HUMID TODAY WITH TEMPERATURES RISING INTO THE 90S PRODUCING HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 95 TO 105. PERSONS SENSITIVE TO THE HEAT...OR THOSE WITH HEALTH PROBLEMS SHOULD TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO AVOID HEAT EXHAUSTION OR HEAT STROKE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM REEDSBURG TO MILWAUKEE. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY...AND AGAIN SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. LMZ643>646-665-180945- SHEBOYGAN TO PORT WASHINGTON- PORT WASHINGTON TO NORTH POINT LIGHTHOUSE- NORTH POINT LIGHTHOUSE TO WIND POINT- WIND POINT TO WINTHROP HARBOR ILLINOIS- WISCONSIN ADJACENT OPEN WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN TO MID LAKE- 1100 AM CDT MON JUL 17 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM TODAY DUE TO GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. A WATERSPOUT CANNOT BE RULED OUT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY NORTH OF NORTH POINT LIGHTHOUSE. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY...AND AGAIN SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. COLLAR
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 17, 1:52 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 2:23 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 67 min | |
| Jul 17, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Marquette | 71 min |
| Jul 17, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green Lake | 37 min |
| Jul 17, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia | 69 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.