Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2012, 9:25 PM CDT for Marquette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 35 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
- May 26, 2012, 9:25 PM CDT (02:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2012, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Marquette County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:27 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 26, 9:38 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 6 N Oxford, WI |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 783 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 360 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
967
WUUS53 KMKX 270225
SVRMKX
WIC077-270300-
/O.NEW.KMKX.SV.W.0028.120527T0225Z-120527T0300Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
925 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN MARQUETTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN...
* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
* AT 922 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WESTFIELD...OR 15 MILES
NORTHEAST OF WISCONSIN DELLS...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WESTFIELD...MONTELLO...LAWRENCE AND HARRISVILLE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
&&
LAT...LON 4379 8919 4376 8961 4388 8960 4399 8930
4399 8927
TIME...MOT...LOC 0226Z 252DEG 27KT 4381 8957
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN
$$
WIMBERLEY1 follow-up statement
451
WWUS53 KMKX 270239
SVSMKX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
939 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2012
WIC077-270300-
/O.CON.KMKX.SV.W.0028.000000T0000Z-120527T0300Z/
MARQUETTE WI-
939 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN
MARQUETTE COUNTY UNTIL 1000 PM CDT...
AT 937 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WESTFIELD...OR 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
WAUTOMA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MONTELLO AND HARRISVILLE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
&&
LAT...LON 4379 8919 4376 8957 4389 8958 4399 8930
4399 8927
TIME...MOT...LOC 0239Z 252DEG 27KT 4384 8944
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.25IN
$$
WIMBERLEYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green Lake, Marquette | 25 min |
| May 27, 3:25 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | MKX | 27 hr |
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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.