Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2006, 2:06 PM CDT for Columbia County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 54 min. 1 report 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 25, 2006, 2:06 PM CDT (19:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2006, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Columbia County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 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 25, 2:40 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Poynette, WI |
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, 7.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 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 251906 SVRMKX WIC021-252000- /O.NEW.KMKX.SV.W.0074.060625T1906Z-060625T2000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 206 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 300 PM CDT * AT 204 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 NEAR POYNETTE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAKE WISCONSIN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PORTAGE AROUND 245 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 4337 8960 4334 8943 4356 8931 4360 8955 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KMKX 251919 SVSMKX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 215 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006 WIC021-252000- /O.CON.KMKX.SV.W.0074.000000T0000Z-060625T2000Z/ COLUMBIA WI- 215 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR COLUMBIA COUNTY... AT 212 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR POYNETTE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAKE WISCONSIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PORTAGE BY 230 PM CDT PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN POYNETTE...BUT THE CORE OF THE STORM WAS STILL TO THE NORTHWEST OF THE CITY. TORRENTIAL...FLASH FLOODING...RAINFALL IS LIKELY UNDER THIS STORM. A COOPERATIVE OBSERVER JUST REPORTED 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN WITH THIS STORM...WITH RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATING UP TO 4 INCHES IN SOME SPOTS. LAT...LON 4337 8960 4334 8943 4356 8931 4360 8955 $$ DAVIS
000 WWUS53 KMKX 251939 SVSMKX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 237 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006 WIC021-252000- /O.CON.KMKX.SV.W.0074.000000T0000Z-060625T2000Z/ COLUMBIA WI- 237 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR COLUMBIA COUNTY... AT 233 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR POYNETTE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES EAST OF LAKE WISCONSIN...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WYOCENA BY 255 PM CDT 8 MILES SOUTH OF PARDEEVILLE BY 300 PM CDT MORE PEA SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE POYNETTE AREA. TORRENTIAL...FLASH FLOODING...RAINFALL IS OCCURRING UNDER THIS STORM. A COOPERATIVE OBSERVER REPORTED 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN WITH THIS STORM ABOUT 15 MINUTES AGO. THE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL CONTINUES. USE EXTREME CAUTION WHILE TRAVELING IN AND AROUND THIS STORM. LAT...LON 4337 8960 4333 8938 4356 8925 4360 8955 $$ 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 Jun 25, 3:28 AM CDT, 10 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 3:28 AM CDT, 10 hours 38 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 328 AM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006 .DISCUSSION...FCST FOCUS IS ON RESOLVING PCPN CHCS WITH UPR LOW. SFC LO IN SW WI. OVERALL LGT WND REGIME ATTM WITH STRATUS DEVELOPMENT NOTED ON 11/3 IMAGERY IN WRN CWA. SOME LWR VSBYS IN WRN CWA SO WILL MENTION SOME ERLY FOG. SCT SHRA IN ERN CWA THEN LOOKS LIKE A LULL WITH RADAR ANIM AND WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWING DEFORMATION ZONE ACRS CNTRL WI INTO SRN MN. THE WX PATTERN WILL BE DOMINATED BY AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH FOR THE FIRST PART OF THE WEEK. H5 TEMPS WILL BE ON THE COOL SIDE...MAINLY IN THE MINUS 14-16C RANGE. DAYTIME HEATING WILL HELP TO GENERATE THE SCT SHRA/TSRA. UPPER LEVEL DCVA WILL BE PLAYING A ROLE AS WELL FROM TIME TO TIME DUE TO SPOKES OF VORT AND PROX OF UPPER LEVEL CIRC. FOR TODAY THE WATER VAPOR/RUC ANIMATION SHOWS A VORT CENTER WEST OF KGRB WITH TAIL OF SAID VORT PRODUCING THE SCT SHRA ACRS ERN CWA. ANOTHER VORT MAX INTO WRN IA. THESE 2 COMBINE INTO ONE UPPER LOW AND EVOLVE AN UPPER LOW CENTER ACRS ERN IA BY 00Z MON. THIS PLACES THE WRN CWA WITHIN THE BEST ZONE OF DCVA...ALTHO ENTIRE CWA IS WITHIN THE GRASP OF TROUGHINESS ALOFT AND THE ASSOC COOL POOL. LI/S BECOME NEGATIVE AS WELL. CAPES AE QUITE SKINNY AND JUST A FEW HUNDRED. WILL HAVE HIGHEST POPS IN WRN CWA. MODELS SHOW THE MAIN UPR LOW CENTER DRIFTING FURTHER SE TNGT ALTHO CWA REAMINS IN UPPER TROF AXIS. IN FACT GFS INDICATES A 23 UNIT VORT CENTER WRAPPING NWD INTO SRN WI TNGT. WILL HAVE HIGHEST POPS IN SRN CWA. MON WILL SEE MORE OF THE SAME WITH MRGNL CAPE AND VORT AXIS ACRS STATE WITH THE COOL H5 TEMPS. HOWEVER WITH SFC LOW TO OUR SOUTH THE NE WINDS WILL KEEP ATMOS MORE STABLE THAN TODAY. WILL GO WITH CHC POPS FOR NOW WITH ONLY ISOLD T MENTIONED. BY TUESDAY GFS INDICATES ANOTHER UPR LOW DROPPING OUT OF CANADA AND ABSORBING/KICKING OUT THE REMNANTS OF UPR LOW TO OUR SOUTH. NE WIND FLOW FOR QUITE SOME TIME WILL KEEP TEMPS COOLER NEAR LM. && .MKX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 12:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1205 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006 WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-260900- COLUMBIA-DANE-DODGE-FOND DU LAC-GREEN-GREEN LAKE-IOWA-JEFFERSON- KENOSHA-LAFAYETTE-MARQUETTE-MILWAUKEE-OZAUKEE-RACINE-ROCK-SAUK- SHEBOYGAN-WALWORTH-WASHINGTON-WAUKESHA- 1205 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. THE GREATEST THREAT WILL BE FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AFTERNOON...AND TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS EVENING. LMZ643>646-665-260900- NORTH POINT LIGHTHOUSE TO WIND POINT- PORT WASHINGTON TO NORTH POINT LIGHTHOUSE- SHEBOYGAN WI TO PORT WASHINGTON- WIND POINT TO WINTHROP HARBOR ILLINOIS- 1205 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED OVER THE NEARSHORE AND OPEN WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WIND AND WAVES MAY APPROACH SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CRITERIA THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AFTERNOON...AND TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 25, 1:42 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
142 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0133 PM HAIL LAKE WISCONSIN 43.37N 89.58W
06/25/2006 E0.25 INCH COLUMBIA WI LAW ENFORCEMENT
LAW ENFORCMENT REPORT HEAVY WIND AND HIGH WINDS
0140 PM HAIL LAKE WISCONSIN 43.37N 89.58W
06/25/2006 E0.25 INCH COLUMBIA WI LAW ENFORCEMENT
ESTIMATED 40 MPH WIND WITH HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL
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RSCHAARThe office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 12:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock | 30 min |
| Jun 25, 1:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Columbia, Sauk | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane, Dodge | 43 min |
| Jun 25, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia | 64 min |
| Jun 25, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 3:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Dane | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Columbia, Sauk | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 5:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Dane | 2 hr |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.