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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2010, 12:20 AM CDT for Columbia County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 40 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
- Jun 27, 2010, 12:20 AM CDT (05:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2010, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Columbia County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:21 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 26, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 766 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 26, 3:30 PM CDT, 8 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 3:30 PM CDT, 8 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 330 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010 .SHORT TERM...WARM FRONT IS RETUNING NWD TOWARD NE IA AND NRN IL WHILE THE LAKE BREEZE...AIDED BY A LOCALLY ENHANCED PRESSURE GRADIENT VIA LOW PRESSURE OVER LOWER MI AND HIGH PRESSURE OVER LAKE SUPERIOR...ACCELERATES SWWD AWAY FROM THE LAKE COUNTIES. WARM FRONT DURING THE EVENING SHOULD EXTEND ESEWD FROM SRN MN INTO SW WI. INCREASING LLJ AND ASSOCIATED WAA OVER ERN SD AND SRN MN WILL ONCE AGAIN TRIGGER SVR CONVECTION OVER THAT REGION AND WILL EVOLVE INTO A SVR MCS THAT WILL TRACK ALONG THE WARM FRONT AND INTO SOUTH CENTRAL WI BY MID TO LATE EVENING AND DURING THE OVERNIGHT FOR ERN WI. MDT DEEP LAYER SHEAR...STEEP MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES...MID LEVEL DRY AIR...AND LARGE CAPE ON ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE FRONT ALL SUPPORT A SVR BOW ECHO. MCS TO LIKELY DIVE SSEWD AS IT ENTERS SRN WI AS HIGHER CAPE VALUES WILL BE TO THE SOUTH...ESPECIALLY WITH SOME STABILIZING EFFECTS OF THE LAKE BREEZE. HAVE THUS KEPT SVR WORDING OUT OF THE FAR EAST AND NE CWA. AFTER MCS...ADDITIONAL STORMS ARE POSSIBLE AS WEAK SHORTWAVE TROUGH AND WAVE OF LOW PRESSURE APPROACHES AND MOVES THROUGH THE REGION ON SUNDAY. IN ADDITION TO THE SVR WORDING MENTIONED HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTH CENTRAL WI FOR TNT. ISOLD FLASH FLOODING IS CERTAINLY POSSIBLE BUT MOVEMENT OF STORMS SHOULD PRECLUDE A WIDESPREAD FLASH FLOOD THREAT. .LONG TERM...DRY WLY WINDS RETURN FOR SUN NT WITH HIGH PRESSURE TO PREVAIL THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. COOLER THAN NORMAL TEMPS ARE EXPECTED && .AVIATION...MAIN ISSUE FOR TAFS TONIGHT AND SUNDAY IS DEALING WITH THUNDERSTORM TIMING. BRISK LOW LEVEL JET POINTING INTO THE AREA WILL BE DRIVING THE STORMS LATER THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. EXPECTING A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS TO MOVE EAST SOUTHEAST TO KMSN BY 05Z SUNDAY...AND THE EASTERN TAF SITES BY 07Z SUNDAY. MVFR VISIBILITIES ARE POSSIBLE WITH ANY OF THE STORMS...BUT WILL LEAVE OUT OF TAFS FOR NOW. ALL SITES COULD ALSO SEE STRONG WINDS. KEPT VICINITY THUNDER MENTION IN TAFS THROUGH SUNDAY...AS COLD FRONT SHIFTS EAST ACROSS THE AREA. BREEZY SOUTHWEST WINDS SHOULD DEVELOP AFTER 14Z SUNDAY WITHIN WARM SECTOR AIRMASS. && .MARINE...BREEZY SOUTHWEST WINDS MAY HAVE FREQUENT GUSTS TO 25 KNOTS ACROSS THE NEARSHORE WATERS ON SUNDAY...AS A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT DEVELOPS. SOME QUESTION IF THIS WILL OCCUR...DEPENDING ON AMOUNT OF CLOUD COVER FROM THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA. THIS WOULD LIMIT MIXING OF WINDS IN THE LOW LEVELS TO THE SURFACE. && .MKX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WI...NONE. LM...NONE. && SHORT/LONG TERM...20 AVIATION/MARINE...08
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 26, 4:02 PM CDT, 8 hours 18 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 402 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010 WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-271000- MARQUETTE-GREEN LAKE-FOND DU LAC-SHEBOYGAN-SAUK-COLUMBIA-DODGE- WASHINGTON-OZAUKEE-IOWA-DANE-JEFFERSON-WAUKESHA-MILWAUKEE- LAFAYETTE-GREEN-ROCK-WALWORTH-RACINE-KENOSHA- 402 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT...MAINLY WEST OF AN OXFORD...TO MADISON...TO MONROE LINE. AN EXPECTED THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WILL MOVE EAST SOUTHEAST FROM SOUTHERN MINNESOTA THROUGH NORTHEAST IOWA...AND ACROSS SOUTHERN WISCONSIN. DAMAGING WINDS AND SOME LARGE HAIL WOULD BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. THE SEVERE WEATHER RISK COULD EXTEND AS FAR EAST AS A BEAVER DAM...TO PEWAUKEE...TO LAKE GENEVA LINE LATER TONIGHT...AS THE COMPLEX MOVES EAST SOUTHEAST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY ACROSS SOUTHERN WISCONSIN SUNDAY MORNING...WITH A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON...AS LOW PRESSURE AND A COLD FRONT MOVE EAST ACROSS THE AREA. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT. LMZ643>646-271000- SHEBOYGAN TO PORT WASHINGTON WI- PORT WASHINGTON TO NORTH POINT LIGHT WI- NORTH POINT LIGHT TO WIND POINT WI- WIND POINT WI TO WINTHROP HARBOR IL- 402 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AN EXPECTED THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WILL MOVE EAST SOUTHEAST FROM SOUTHERN MINNESOTA THROUGH NORTHEAST IOWA...AND ACROSS SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND PERHAPS THE NEARSHORE WATERS. GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH ANY OF THE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY ACROSS THE NEARSHORE WATERS SUNDAY MORNING...WITH A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON...AS LOW PRESSURE AND A COLD FRONT MOVE EAST ACROSS THE AREA. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. SOUTHWEST WIND GUSTS WILL APPROACH SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CRITERIA SUNDAY...AS A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT DEVELOPS. WOOD WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MKX
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 10:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jun 26, 11:26 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1126 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010 WIZ056-057-062-063-270530- COLUMBIA-DANE-IOWA-SAUK- 1126 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ALONG THE WISCONSIN RIVER... AT 1122 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 23 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SAUK CITY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL...WINDS GREATER THAN 40 MPH...OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. * THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SPRING GREEN BY 1130 PM CDT... MAZOMANIE BY 1150 PM CDT... SAUK CITY AND PRAIRIE DU SAC BY MIDNIGHT CDT... GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED. FRANKS
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 12:15 AM CDT, 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1215 AM CDT SUN JUN 27 2010 WIZ056-057-063-270600- COLUMBIA-DANE-SAUK- 1215 AM CDT SUN JUN 27 2010 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO WEST CENTRAL COLUMBIA COUNTY... AT 1212 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR LAKE WISCONSIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. * THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LAKE WISCONSIN AND LODI BY 1220 AM CDT... I90/94 WI RIVER BRIDGE BY 1225 AM CDT... POYNETTE BY 1230 AM CDT... RIO AND PARDEEVILLE BY 1245 AM CDT... GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED. FRANKS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 1:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Marquette | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 9:38 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 52 min | |
| Jun 27, 1:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Racine | 18 min |
| Jun 27, 1:32 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 44 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.