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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2008, 5:20 AM CDT for Dane County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 25 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
- Jun 5, 2008, 5:20 AM CDT (10:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2008, 5:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Dane County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 4:59 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 1408 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 928 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMKX 051020 SVRMKX WIC025-051045- /O.NEW.KMKX.SV.W.0021.080605T1020Z-080605T1045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 520 AM CDT THU JUN 5 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN DANE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN... * UNTIL 545 AM CDT * AT 518 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR STOUGHTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... STOUGHTON BY 525 AM CDT... 6 MILES SOUTH OF DEERFIELD BY 535 AM CDT... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN. LAT...LON 4310 8902 4285 8901 4285 8935 4300 8947 TIME...MOT...LOC 1020Z 248DEG 39KT 4290 8926 $$ GEHRING
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMKX 051034 SVSMKX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 533 AM CDT THU JUN 5 2008 WIC025-051045- /O.CON.KMKX.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-080605T1045Z/ DANE WI- 533 AM CDT THU JUN 5 2008 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 AM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN DANE COUNTY... AT 531 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR STOUGHTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 32 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ROCKDALE AND DEERFIELD BY 545 AM CDT... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND ALL OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. LAT...LON 4310 8902 4285 8901 4285 8935 4300 8947 TIME...MOT...LOC 1033Z 244DEG 28KT 4295 8917 $$ REM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 5:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane | 27 min |
| Jun 5, 5:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green, Rock | 51 min |
| Jun 5, 6:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Walworth, Waukesha | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 6:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Walworth | 50 min |
| Jun 5, 6:27 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MKX | Columbia, Dane, Iowa, Sauk | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 6:36 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 114 min | |
| Jun 5, 7:42 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MKX | Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine, Walworth, Waukesha | 4 hr |
| Jun 5, 8:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Walworth | 42 min |
| Jun 5, 8:11 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 94 min | |
| Jun 5, 6:55 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Green, Rock | 14 hr |
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.