Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2006, 7:47 PM CDT for Washington County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 28 min. 2 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 27, 2006, 7:47 PM CDT (00:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2006, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Washington County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:49 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 27, 7:50 PM CDT | HAIL 0.25 | 1 Nw Hartford, WI | |
| Jun 27, 7:52 PM CDT | HAIL 0.25 | Hartford, 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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 388 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1648 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 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 280047 SVRMKX WIC131-280115- /O.NEW.KMKX.SV.W.0079.060628T0047Z-060628T0115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 747 PM CDT TUE JUN 27 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 745 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HARTFORD...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SLINGER AROUND 810 PM CDT... JACKSON AND WEST BEND AROUND 815 PM CDT... IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED. LAT...LON 4344 8840 4323 8841 4323 8812 4346 8812 $$ HENTZ
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KMKX 280106 SVSMKX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 805 PM CDT TUE JUN 27 2006 WIC131-280115- /O.CON.KMKX.SV.W.0079.000000T0000Z-060628T0115Z/ WASHINGTON WI- 805 PM CDT TUE JUN 27 2006 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR WASHINGTON COUNTY... AT 802 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR KEWASKUM...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THE STORMS JUST EAST OF HARTFORD HAVE WEAKENED SOMEWHAT. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 6 MILES NORTH OF WEST BEND BY 815 PM CDT IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS ARE EXPECTED. LAT...LON 4355 8832 4323 8841 4321 8816 4354 8811 $$ HENTZ
000 WWUS53 KMKX 280116 SVSMKX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 815 PM CDT TUE JUN 27 2006 WIC131-280125- /O.EXP.KMKX.SV.W.0079.000000T0000Z-060628T0115Z/ WASHINGTON WI- 815 PM CDT TUE JUN 27 2006 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WASHINGTON COUNTY EXPIRES AT 815 PM CDT... THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL EXPECTED IN THE WASHINGTON COUNTY AREA...BUT THE HAIL SHOULD BE MAINLY PEA TO MARBLE SIZED. THE STORMS ARE ALSO PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS TO 45 MPH. LAT...LON 4355 8832 4323 8841 4321 8816 4354 8811 $$ HENTZ
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 27, 2:29 PM CDT, 5 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:29 PM CDT, 5 hours 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 229 PM CDT TUE JUN 27 2006 .DISCUSSION...FORECAST FOCUS ON PCPN/TSTM CHANCES NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. IN THE SHORT TERM...BASED ON RUC ANALYSIS AND WATER VAPOR IMAGERY...12Z NAM HAS BEST HANDLE ON STRENGTH AND POSITION OF POTENT 23 UNIT VORT MAX DROPPING INTO NW WI AT 17Z. NAM ALSO SHOWED THIS STRENGTH AND TIMING 24 HRS AGO SO GENERALLY WILL BE FOLLOWED. WEAK LEAD SHORT WV THAT EJECTED AHEAD OF MAIN SHRT WAVE TRIGGERED A FEW SHRA/TSTMS THIS MORNING OVER SW CWA IN VICINITY OF NEARLY STATIONARY SFC TROF ALONG A GRB TO DBQ LINE. BETTER DCVA WILL PASS OVER NRN WI CLOSER TO CENTER OF VIGOROUS SHRT WV...BUT SOME LARGE SCALE LIFT EXPECTED AS VORT ADVECTION BRUSHES SRN WI LATE THIS AFTERNOON/EVE. TEMPS HEATING OUT INTO THE MID TO UPPER 70S AND DEW PTS IN THE UPR 50S ARE PRODUCING SCT TSTMS ATTM WITH SFC BASED LI/S OF -3 TO -5 OVER SRN WI AHEAD OF STATIONARY PRESSURE TROUGH AND ALONG LAKE BREEZE BOUNDARY. EXPECT THIS INITIAL TSTM AREA ALONG LEADING EDGE OF MID LVL DRY PUNCH AHEAD OF SHRT WV TO PUSH EAST BY EARLY EVENING AS LOWER DEW PT AIR SPREADS INTO SRN WI BEHIND TROF. ANY CONVECTION THAT DEVELOPS IN ERN MN...NW AND WRN WI IN IMMEDIATE VCNTY OF VORT SHOULD DIMINISH TO SHRA WITH LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. WILL GO WITH SCT THUNDERSTORMS FOR THIS EVENING...THEN TAPER TO ISOLATED SHRA OVERNIGHT AS DRIER AIR MOVES IN AND SFC BNDRY SAGS SOUTH INTO IL. NAM AND GFS HAVE COME MORE IN LINE WITH GENERAL TIMING/POSITION OF UPR TROF. SHORT WAVE CENTERED NEAR HAYWARD AT 18Z TODAY WILL REACH GRB AROUND 12Z WED. A SLIGHT CHC OF SHRA WED MORNING WITH INSTABILITY AS -16 TO -18C COLD POOL AT 500 MB SETTLING OVER STATE. SERIES OF WEAK WAVES DROPS IN BEHIND MAIN SHRT WV WED AFTERNOON AND EVENING. COLD POOL PRODUCING 700-500MB LAPSE RATES OF 6-7 DEG C. WHILE Q-VECTOR CONVERGENCE/FRONTOGENETIC FORCING IN THE 1000-850 MB LAYER IS FOCUSED MORE ALONG BNDRY TO OUR SOUTH...FCST SNDGS WITH TEMP/DEW PT OF 73F/57F FOR MSN AT 22Z SHOW CAPES AROUND 500 J/KG. DEW PT LOOKS A BIT OVERDONE...BUT TEMP IS A BIT LOW. EXPECT ENOUGH INSTABILITY AND CAPE TO GO ALONG WITH DYNAMICS TO KEEP CHC THUNDER FOR WED AFTERNOON...WITH SHRA/ISOLATED TSTMS LINGERING INTO WED NIGHT WITH LAST IN THE SERIES OF SHRT WAVES MOVING THRU. FOR THE LATER PERIODS GFS/ECMWF CONTINUE TO SHOW UPR LVL RIDGE AXIS PUSHING UPR TROF OUT OF WI BY THURSDAY. SFC RDG BLDG INTO REGION SHOULD BRING AT LEAST A TEMPORARY BREAK TO TO THE PCPN CHCS. LOW LVL FLOW EXPECTED TO BECOME MORE SWLY BY FRI...WITH 850MB TEMPS FROM GFS/ECMWF APPROACHING 18-20C BY SAT...RESULTING IN MAX TEMPS RISING BACK INTO THE 80S. COLD FRONT/SFC TROF DROPPING THRU STATE WILL BRING PCPN CHCS LT FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY AND MAY TEMPER SAT HI/S A BIT. MID RANGE MODELS PUSH FRONT SOUTH OF STATE FOR SUNDAY THEN STALLING OVER NRN/CNTRL IL. GFS KEEPS PCPN WITH WAA AHEAD OF SFC WAVE MOVING ALONG FRONT SOUTH OF STATE MONDAY...WHILE ECMWF/DGEX BRINGING PCPN INTO STATE. WILL LEAVE CURRENT CHC IN PLACE FOR NOW...BUT TAKE PCPN OUT FOR MONDAY NIGHT AS ALL MODELS SHOW HI BUILDING BACK OVER RGN IN WAKE OF WAVE AND FRONT RETREATING SWD. && .MKX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && REM
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 8:40 AM CDT, 11 hours 7 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 840 AM CDT TUE JUN 27 2006 WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-280945- MARQUETTE-GREEN LAKE-FOND DU LAC-SHEBOYGAN-SAUK-COLUMBIA-DODGE- WASHINGTON-OZAUKEE-IOWA-DANE-JEFFERSON-WAUKESHA-MILWAUKEE- LAFAYETTE-GREEN-ROCK-WALWORTH-RACINE-KENOSHA- 840 AM CDT TUE JUN 27 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 EARLY TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREATS ARE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND AGAIN SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. LMZ643>646-665-280945- 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- 840 AM CDT TUE JUN 27 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREATS ARE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND AGAIN SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. COLLAR
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 27, 3:07 PM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
307 PM CDT TUE JUN 27 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0249 PM HAIL 7 W CASCADE 43.66N 88.15W
06/27/2006 E0.50 INCH SHEBOYGAN WI PUBLIC
&&
DRHLocal storm report, Jun 27, 6:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
643 PM CDT TUE JUN 27 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0643 PM HAIL 1 N BEAVER DAM 43.48N 88.84W
06/27/2006 E0.75 INCH DODGE WI LAW ENFORCEMENT
LAW ENFORCEMENT ESTIMATED DIME SIZE HAIL JUST NORTH OF
THE CITY.
&&
DRHLocal storm report, Jun 27, 7:09 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
709 PM CDT TUE JUN 27 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0700 PM FUNNEL CLOUD HORICON 43.44N 88.64W
06/27/2006 DODGE WI TRAINED SPOTTER
SPOTTER INDICATED HE SAW A FUNNEL CLOUD...LOOKING TO THE
SOUTHWEST OF THE CITY...TOWARD JUNEAU.
&&
DRHLocal storm report, Jun 27, 7:15 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
715 PM CDT TUE JUN 27 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0710 PM HAIL JUNEAU 43.41N 88.70W
06/27/2006 E0.50 INCH DODGE WI TRAINED SPOTTER
MULTIPLE REPORTS FROM TRAINED SPOTTERS OF .25 TO .50 INCH
HAIL IN THE CITY OF JUNEAU.
&&
DRHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia | 47 min |
| Jun 28, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge | 44 min |
| Jun 28, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 45 min |
| Jun 28, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane | 47 min |
| Jun 28, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Racine, Waukesha | 47 min |
| Jun 28, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Rock | 41 min |
| Jun 28, 6:55 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 61 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.