Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2012, 3:52 PM CDT for Dodge County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 23 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
- May 3, 2012, 3:52 PM CDT (20:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2012, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Dodge County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 4:04 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Juneau, WI | |
| May 3, 4:04 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | Juneau, WI |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 1:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 321 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
923 WUUS53 KMKX 032052 SVRMKX WIC027-032130- /O.NEW.KMKX.SV.W.0012.120503T2052Z-120503T2130Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 352 PM CDT THU MAY 3 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DODGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN... * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 347 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BEAVER DAM...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... JUNEAU...HORICON...JUNEAU DODGE AIRPORT...HUSTISFORD...IRON RIDGE...LOWELL...MINNESOTA JUNCTION...CLYMAN...LEBANON...WOODLAND AND NEOSHO. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR LARGE HAIL AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. && LAT...LON 4342 8842 4321 8855 4337 8898 4354 8889 TIME...MOT...LOC 2052Z 292DEG 24KT 4342 8882 WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN $$ WIMBERLEY
2 follow-up statements
984 WWUS53 KMKX 032104 SVSMKX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 404 PM CDT THU MAY 3 2012 WIC027-032130- /O.CON.KMKX.SV.W.0012.000000T0000Z-120503T2130Z/ DODGE WI- 404 PM CDT THU MAY 3 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN DODGE COUNTY UNTIL 430 PM CDT... AT 401 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR JUNEAU...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HORICON...HUSTISFORD...IRON RIDGE...CLYMAN...LEBANON...WOODLAND AND NEOSHO. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR LARGE HAIL AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. && LAT...LON 4352 8879 4342 8842 4321 8855 4334 8890 TIME...MOT...LOC 2104Z 292DEG 24KT 4339 8872 WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN $$ BROOKS
609 WWUS53 KMKX 032115 SVSMKX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 415 PM CDT THU MAY 3 2012 WIC027-032125- /O.CAN.KMKX.SV.W.0012.000000T0000Z-120503T2130Z/ DODGE WI- 415 PM CDT THU MAY 3 2012 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN DODGE COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. LAT...LON 4352 8879 4342 8842 4321 8855 4334 8890 TIME...MOT...LOC 2115Z 292DEG 24KT 4336 8863 $$ BROOKS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2:09 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MKX | Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Marquette | 3 hr |
| May 3, 8:34 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MKX | Green Lake, Marquette | 3 hr |
| May 3, 11:41 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | MKX | 4 hr | |
| May 3, 12:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Jefferson | 51 min |
| May 3, 1:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Jefferson | 40 min |
| May 3, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 46 min |
| May 3, 1:31 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 29 min | |
| May 3, 1:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Washington | 49 min |
| May 3, 1:53 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 37 min | |
| May 3, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington, Waukesha | 30 min |
| May 3, 2:23 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 12 min | |
| May 3, 2:29 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 31 min | |
| May 3, 2:54 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 66 min | |
| May 3, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dodge | 46 min |
| May 3, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane | 39 min |
| May 3, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Jefferson | 23 min |
| May 3, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Waukesha | 35 min |
| May 3, 4:17 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 43 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.