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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2006, 12:28 PM CDT for Racine County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 47 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 30, 2006, 12:28 PM CDT (17:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2006, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 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), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 1057 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1203 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMKX 301728 SVRMKX WIC101-301815- /O.NEW.KMKX.SV.W.0052.060530T1728Z-060530T1815Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1228 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RACINE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 115 PM CDT * AT 1225 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTH OF UNION GROVE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WIND LAKE... AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... STURTEVANT AROUND 1235 PM CDT... RACINE AROUND 1255 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 4283 8806 4267 8809 4268 8780 4283 8783 $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KMKX 301744 SVSMKX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1243 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006 WIC101-301815- /O.CON.KMKX.SV.W.0052.000000T0000Z-060530T1815Z/ RACINE WI- 1243 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 115 PM CDT FOR RACINE COUNTY... AT 1242 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CALEDONIA...OR ABOUT NEAR OAK CREEK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. NO GROUND TRUTH REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE BEEN RECEIVED AT THIS TIME. LAT...LON 4283 8811 4267 8809 4268 8780 4283 8783 $$ DAVIS
000 WWUS53 KMKX 301805 SVSMKX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 103 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006 WIC101-301815- /O.CON.KMKX.SV.W.0052.000000T0000Z-060530T1815Z/ RACINE WI- 103 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 115 PM CDT FOR RACINE COUNTY... AT 1258 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CALEDONIA...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF OAK CREEK...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THE ORIGINAL STORM THAT TRIGGERED THE WARNING MOVED INTO MILWAUKEE COUNTY AND HAS WEAKENED...BUT THE STORM IS BACK BUILDING OVER RACINE COUNTY. THUS...THE WARNING FOR RACINE COUNTY WILL CONTINUE. THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WITH FLOODING A POTENTIAL HAZARD. LAT...LON 4283 8811 4267 8809 4268 8780 4283 8783 $$ DAVIS
000 WWUS53 KMKX 301815 SVSMKX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 115 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006 WIC101-301824- /O.EXP.KMKX.SV.W.0052.000000T0000Z-060530T1815Z/ RACINE WI- 115 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR RACINE COUNTY EXPIRED AT 115 PM CDT... ALTHOUGH THE STORM THAT TRIGGERED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED OFF TO THE NORTHEAST...MORE THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. REMAIN ALERT FOR THE POTENTIAL OF HAZARDOUS WEATHER ACROSS SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LAT...LON 4283 8811 4267 8809 4268 8780 4283 8783 $$ DAVIS
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 30, 4:23 AM CDT, 8 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 30, 4:23 AM CDT, 8 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 423 AM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006 .DISCUSSION...FORECAST FOCUS ON THUNDERSTORM/PRECIP CHANCES THROUGH MIDWEEK. SFC ANALYSIS EARLY THIS MORNING INDICATING WK TROF/COLD FRONT EXTENDING SWD FROM LK SUPERIOR...THRU WRN WI...INTO CNTRL IA. RADAR RETURNS OVERNIGHT INDICATED A PERSISTENT AREA OF SLOW MOVING ELEVATED CONVECTION OVER WRN WI...WITH THE LINE SHOWING SIGNS OF BUILDING SWWD AS OF 08Z. WV IMAGERY DEPICTING UPPER RIDGE AXIS EXTENDING NWD THRU OHIO VALLEY...WITH UPPER TROUGH OVER NRN ROCKIES. FOR TODAY...EXPECTING CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY TO GRADUALLY INCREASE FROM WEST TO EAST AS SFC TROF/CDFNT PUSHES SLOWLY EWD ACRS THE STATE. WITH SFC DEWPOINTS STILL ON THE TROPICAL SIDE (I.E. MID-UPR 60S) EXPECTING AMS TO DESTABILIZE RAPIDLY AS TEMPS QUICKLY WARM INTO THE 80S. MODELS SOUNDINGS INDICATING CAPE VALUES 1000-2000 J/KG BY 18Z...WITH PW VALUES 150-200% OF NORMAL. BIG HINDRANCE TO STORM ORGANIZATION WILL BE WEAK WIND FLOW...WITH 0-6KM BULK SHEAR VALUES ONLY IN THE 10-20 KNOT RANGE. IN ADDITION...LOW LVEL CONVERGENCE ALONG THE FRONT ONLY MARGINAL...SO EXPECTING CONVECTIVE MODE TO START OUT RATHER ISOLATED...PERHAPS MERGING INTO BROKEN LINES/CLUSTERS AS OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES INTERACT. AS FOR SEVERE POTENTIAL...ABOVE MENTIONED WEAK SHEAR SHOULD PREVENT WIDESPREAD OUTBREAK...ALTHOUGH MODERATE INSTABILITY WOULD SUPPORT AT LEAST ISOLATED PULSE-DOWNBURST ACTIVITY. WILL ALSO HAVE TO KEEP EYE ON HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL AS COMBINATION OF RICH LOW LVL MOISTURE...DEEP WARM CLOUD LAYER...AND SLOW MOVEMENT OF STORMS COULD LEAD TO LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL. FOR TONIGHT...MODELS STRUGGLING A BIT ON HOW QUICKLY TO MOVE SFC FRONT THROUGH STATE WITH THE GFS MOVING IT SOUTH INTO NRN IL...WHILE NAM STALLS IT RIGHT OVER CWA. EITHER WAY...DECIDED TO KEEP POPS IN THE LIKELY RANGE AS DECENT FRONTOGENETICAL FORCING NEAR BAROCLINIC ZONE SHOULD PRODUCE ANOTHER BOUT OF CONVECTION. HEAVY RAIN AGAIN POSSIBLE AS DEEP MOISTURE FLOWS OVER BOUNDARY. SURFACE FRONT SHOULD FINALLY SHIFT SOUTH OF AREA BY WEDNESDAY. AS A RESULT...WINDS SHOULD SHIFT OUT OF THE NE...PRODUCING A BIG COOLDOWN...ESPECIALLY NEAR THE LAKE. STILL SOME POTENTIAL FOR FORCING INVOF OF 850MB BAROCLINIC ZONE...SO KEPT LIKELY WORDING IN THE MORNING...AND CHANCE IN AFTERNOON AS BEST FORCING SHOULD SHIFT SOUTHWARD. MAY GET BRIEF BREAK IN THE ACTION WED NIGHT...BEFORE NEXT DISTURBANCE MOVES IN FOR THURSDAY. TEMPERATURES MIDWEEK EXPECTED TO BE CLOSER TO NORMAL....DUE TO NELY SFC FLOW REGIME. && .MKX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && FOWLE
Hazardous weather outlook, May 30, 11:45 AM CDT, 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1145 AM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006 WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-311100- MARQUETTE-GREEN LAKE-FOND DU LAC-SHEBOYGAN-SAUK-COLUMBIA-DODGE- WASHINGTON-OZAUKEE-IOWA-DANE-JEFFERSON-WAUKESHA-MILWAUKEE- LAFAYETTE-GREEN-ROCK-WALWORTH-RACINE-KENOSHA- 1145 AM CDT TUE MAY 30 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. NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN WISCONSIN WILL PRODUCE AREAS OF HEAVY RAINFALL. THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY WEDNESDAY...DIMINISHING WEDNESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LMZ643>646-665-311100- 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- 1145 AM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY WEDNESDAY...DIMINISHING WEDNESDAY NIGHT. COLLAR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 11:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Sheboygan | 114 min |
| May 30, 2:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MKX | Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green, Green Lake and 14 more | 17 hr |
| May 30, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Rock | 20 min |
| May 30, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Racine | 48 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.