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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 27, 2014Sheboygan County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2014, 12:23 PM CDT for Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 22 min. 3 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: Jul 27, 2014, 12:23 PM CDT (17:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2014, 12:45 PM CDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Sheboygan County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:23 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
Jul 27, 12:24 PM CDT	HAIL 0.5	Sheboygan, WI	SHEBOYGAN COUNTY DISPATCH STATED THEY HAD REPORTS OF HAIL SLIGHTLY BIGGER THAN PEA SIZED. POWER OUTAGES WERE REPORTED NEAR BROADWAY AND DARTMOUTH.
Jul 27, 12:24 PM CDT	HAIL 1	Sheboygan, WI	PUBLIC REPORT RELAYED BY MEDIA.
Jul 27, 12:31 PM CDT	HAIL 0.5	Sheboygan, WI	MEASURED 1/2 INCH SIZED HAIL. HAIL ACCUMULATED ON GROUND. HEAVY RAIN OF 0.41 IN 20 MINUTES.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

Did it verify

Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched one storm report to this severe thunderstorm warning; the first came 1 minutes after it went out.

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 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 90 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 236 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -162 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -1.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

664 
WUUS53 KMKX 271723
SVRMKX
WIC117-271745-
/O.NEW.KMKX.SV.W.0081.140727T1723Z-140727T1745Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
1223 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN SHEBOYGAN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...

* UNTIL 1245 PM CDT

* AT 1222 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER KOHLER...OR
  OVER SHEBOYGAN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

  HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SHEBOYGAN...SHEBOYGAN FALLS...HOWARDS GROVE...OOSTBURG...KOHLER AND
  GIBBSVILLE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 4368 8770 4361 8776 4365 8791 4383 8785
      4382 8773 4370 8770
TIME...MOT...LOC 1722Z 272DEG 24KT 4373 8775 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH

$$

HENTZ

1 follow-up statement

589 
WWUS53 KMKX 271737
SVSMKX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
1237 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014

WIC117-271747-
/O.EXP.KMKX.SV.W.0081.000000T0000Z-140727T1745Z/
SHEBOYGAN WI-
1237 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN SHEBOYGAN COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 1245 PM CDT...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA AND 
OUT OVER LAKE MICHIGAN. THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO 
EXPIRE.

LAT...LON 4368 8770 4361 8776 4365 8791 4383 8785
      4382 8773 4370 8770
TIME...MOT...LOC 1735Z 272DEG 24KT 4373 8775 

$$

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 Jul 27, 10:32 AM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 10:32 AM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
1032 AM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014

.UPDATE...

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS ARE QUICKLY DEVELOPING THIS MORNING
UPSTREAM AS EXPECTED. WILL SEE THIS ACTIVITY PUSH SOUTH INTO THE
FORECAST AREA LATE MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON AS THE TROUGH AXIS
ROTATES THROUGH. STILL EXPECT DAYTIME HIGH TEMPERATURES TO BE LATE
THIS MORNING INTO EARLY AFTERNOON...WITH DECREASING TEMPS AFTER
THAT FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST AS THE CLOUDS/SHOWERS AND COLDER
AIR ALOFT MOVE IN.

&&

.AVIATION/18Z TAFS/...

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS ARE QUICKLY DEVELOPING THIS MORNING
UPSTREAM AS EXPECTED. WILL SEE THIS ACTIVITY PUSH SOUTH INTO THE
FORECAST AREA LATE MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON AS THE TROUGH AXIS
ROTATES THROUGH. SHOWERS WILL WIND DOWN EARLY THIS EVENING.

MAINLY VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TODAY EXCEPT FOR MVFR VSBYS
POSSIBLE WITHIN MODERATE RAINFALL. WILL ALSO MONITOR POSSIBLE
MVFR CIGS AS MAIN COLD POOL ALOFT PUSHES THROUGH TONIGHT...THOUGH
MODEL SOUNDINGS AND MOS SUGGEST VFR CIGS.

IT LOOKS PRETTY QUIET THEN MONDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE MOVES INTO THE
AREA.

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 313 AM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014/

TODAY AND TONIGHT...FORECAST CONFIDENCE IS HIGH.

A SURFACE COLD FRONT WILL PUSH ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA THIS
MORNING...REACHING MADISON BY 14Z AND MILWAUKEE BETWEEN 16-17Z. WE
COULD SEE A LINE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT
OVER THE CWA BEFORE IT EXITS TO THE EAST. HEIGHTS ARE FALLING AS
AN IMPRESSIVELY STRONG UPPER TROF DROPS SOUTH INTO THE WESTERN
GREAT LAKES. UP UNTIL NOW...THE COLUMN HAS BEEN FAIRLY DRY IN THE
MID LEVELS OVER SOUTHERN WI WITH DECENT CAPPING IN THE LOW
LEVELS...LIMITING CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT. BUT THIS WILL BE
MOISTENING UP QUICKLY JUST AS TEMPS ALOFT ARE COOLING.

THE HRRR SHOWS CONVECTION DEVELOPING ALONG THE FRONT JUST AS IT/S
GETTING TO MADISON. THIS ISN/T A SURE THING...BUT IT LOOKS LIKE A
REASONABLE AND POSSIBLE SCENARIO. BEHIND THE FRONT...THE COLD CORE
UPPER SYSTEM DROPS IN AND PRECIP SHOULD EXPAND UNDER THIS LOW BY
EARLY TO MID AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY OVER THE NORTHEAST CWA. THIS
WILL BE MAINLY SHOWERS...BUT WE COULD CRACK SOME THUNDER...SO WILL
KEEP THAT MENTION.

DRIER WEATHER WORKS IN QUICKLY TONIGHT IN THE WAKE OF A SECONDARY
COLD FRONT THAT CLEARS SOUTHERN WISCONSIN BY ABOUT 03Z SUN. THIS
WILL BRING CLEARING SKIES WITH TEMPS FALLING INTO THE 50S.

SHORT TERM...MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...FORECAST CONFIDENCE
IS MEDIUM.

SHORT TERM MODELS SHOWING 500 MB TROUGH LINGERING OVER
SOUTHEASTERN CANADA INTO THE EASTERN USA DURING THIS PERIOD. THE
UPPER MIDWEST SHOULD REMAIN IN NORTHWESTERLY FLOW AS A RESULT.
WEAK 500 MB VORTICITY MAXIMA PASS THROUGH THE AREA...MAINLY
TUESDAY INTO TUESDAY NIGHT. MODELS ARE SHOWING LIGHT QPF ACROSS
PORTIONS OF THE AREA DURING THIS TIME.

AREA FORECAST SOUNDINGS SHOW ENOUGH SHALLOW MEAN LAYER CAPE FOR
SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY INTO TUESDAY NIGHT.
CONTINUED POPS FOR TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...WITH MONDAY AND
MONDAY NIGHT DRY.

TEMPERATURES WILL BE BELOW SEASONAL NORMALS MONDAY...WITH 925 MB
TEMPERATURES SUPPORTING LOWER 70S EAST TO MID 70S WEST. COOL NIGHT
MONDAY NIGHT WITH LOWS IN THE LOWER TO MID 50S ARE EXPECTED...WITH
MID TO UPPER 70S ON TUESDAY.

LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...FORECAST CONFIDENCE IS
MEDIUM.

ECMWF/GFS CONTINUE TO SHOW 500 MB TROUGH LINGERING TO THE EAST OF
THE REGION THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...WITH ANOTHER TROUGH ROTATING
INTO THE AREA FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY. VARIOUS VORTICITY MAXIMA
SHOULD CONTINUE TO ROTATE THROUGH THE REGION AT TIMES.

GFS FORECAST SOUNDINGS SHOW SOME WEAK INSTABILITY EACH AFTERNOON
AND EVENING DURING THIS PERIOD...WHICH MAY ALLOW FOR SHOWERS AND A
FEW STORMS. KEPT POPS GOING FOR MOST OF THIS PERIOD...GIVEN SOME
UNCERTAINTY WITH THE EXACT TIMING OF PRECIPITATION. TEMPERATURES
SHOULD BE PLEASANT DURING THIS TIME...WITH ONSHORE WINDS AT TIMES
NEAR LAKE MICHIGAN KEEPING THINGS COOLER THERE.

AVIATION/12Z TAFS/...

LOOK FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS THROUGH THE TAF PERIOD. WE
START OUT WITH SOME AREAS OF FOG AND POSSIBLE IFR/MVFR
CONDITIONS...BUT THIS WILL ONLY BE A THREAT THROUGH ABOUT 15Z THIS
MORNING. THEREAFTER WINDS INCREASE AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD
FRONT AND THIS SHOULD MIX OUT ANY FOG/LOW CLOUDS.

THE COLD FRONT WILL REACH KMSN BY 14Z AND KMKE/KENW/KUES BTWN
16-17Z. THERE IS A THREAT OF SHOWERS AND STORMS ALONG AND AHEAD OF
THE FRONT...BUT CONDITIONS SHOULD REMAIN AT VFR LEVELS. BEHIND THE
FRONT...COOLER UPPER LEVELS WITH THE ARRIVAL OF A STRONG MID LEVEL
SHORT WAVE WILL RESULT IN EXPANDING PRECIPITATION BY EARLY
AFTERNOON. THIS WILL BE MOSTLY SHOWERS...BUT A THUNDERSTORM IS
POSSIBLE. STILL MAINLY VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED.

A SECONDARY COLD FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH THE AREA VERY LATE THIS
AFTERNOON OR EARLY THIS EVENING. THERE COULD BE A PERIOD OF MVFR
CIGS WITH THAT...BUT SKIES WILL CLEAR FROM NORTH TO SOUTH BY 06Z
MONDAY WITH DRIER AND COOLER WEATHER EXPECTED. LOOK FOR MAINLY VFR
CONDITIONS AFTER 06Z MON.

MARINE...

INCREASING NORTHERLY WINDS TO 15 TO 25 KNOTS BY THIS EVENING...IN
THE WAKE OF A PASSING COLD FRONT...WILL BRING SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY
CONDITIONS FROM ABOUT 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING
ON SUNDAY. WAVES WILL BUILD TO 4 TO 7 FEET TONIGHT...DIMINISHING
SLOWLY ON SUNDAY.

BEACHES...

INCREASING NORTH WINDS WILL BRING BUILDING WAVES TO THE BEACHES
FROM SHEBOYGAN SOUTH THROUGH KENOSHA COUNTY. WAVES WILL REACH 3 TO
4 FEET ALONG THE SHORELINE BY EARLY THIS EVENING...BUILDING TO 4
TO 7 FEET TONIGHT...THEN DIMINISHING SLOWLY THROUGH THE AFTERNOON
INTO THE EARLY EVENING ON SUNDAY. A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS IN
EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH MONDAY EVENING.

&&

.MKX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
WI...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FROM 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING THROUGH
     MONDAY EVENING FOR WIZ052-060-066-071-072.

LM...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT MONDAY
     FOR LMZ645-646.

     SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 4 PM CDT MONDAY
     FOR LMZ643-644.

&&

UPDATE...DDV
TODAY/TONIGHT AND AVIATION/MARINE/BEACHES...DAVIS
MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...WOOD

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 27, 11:29 AM CDT, 54 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
1129 AM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014

WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-280845-
MARQUETTE-GREEN LAKE-FOND DU LAC-SHEBOYGAN-SAUK-COLUMBIA-DODGE-
WASHINGTON-OZAUKEE-IOWA-DANE-JEFFERSON-WAUKESHA-MILWAUKEE-
LAFAYETTE-GREEN-ROCK-WALWORTH-RACINE-KENOSHA-
1129 AM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014

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 CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY.

THERE IS A HIGH SWIM RISK TONIGHT. HIGH WAVES AND DANGEROUS RIP
CURRENTS ARE LIKELY ALONG THE SHORELINE FROM SHEBOYGAN TO KENOSHA
COUNTIES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THERE IS A SMALL CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY DURING THE
AFTERNOONS FROM TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

THE HIGH SWIM RISK WILL CONTINUE INTO SUNDAY EVENING FOR HIGH
WAVES AND DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS LIKELY ALONG THE SHORELINE FROM
SHEBOYGAN TO KENOSHA COUNTIES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

LMZ643>646-280845-
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-
1129 AM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF LAKE MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY.

INCREASING NORTHERLY WINDS IN THE WAKE OF A PASSING COLD FRONT
WILL BRING SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CONDITIONS FROM LATE THIS
AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY MONDAY EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE INTO EARLY MONDAY
EVENING.

THERE IS A CHANCE OF MAINLY AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY FROM
TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

DAVIS/DDV
WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MKX

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 27, 12:13 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
1213 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014

WIZ047-051-058-271745-
GREEN LAKE-DODGE-FOND DU LAC-
1213 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014

...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT GREEN LAKE...DODGE...
FOND DU LAC COUNTIES...

AT 1212 PM CDT...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER WAUPUN. THE
STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH

DIME SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BEAVER DAM...WAUPUN...MAYVILLE...OAKFIELD...BRANDON...BURNETT...
LAMARTINE...FOX LAKE...ALTO...FAIRWATER...KEKOSKEE...OAK CENTER...
LAGODA AND ATWATER.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 4375 8853 4346 8853 4346 8892 4375 8892
TIME...MOT...LOC 1712Z 180DEG 0KT 4361 8873

HENTZ

The office that day

Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 3:15 AM CDT	Beach Hazards Statement	MKX	Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Sheboygan	40 hr
Jul 27, 12:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Sheboygan	29 min
Jul 27, 12:11 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		34 min
Jul 27, 12:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Dodge	32 min
Jul 27, 12:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Fond du Lac	15 min
Jul 27, 12:50 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		25 min
Jul 27, 12:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Washington	10 min
Jul 27, 1:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Washington	20 min
Jul 27, 1:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Washington	18 min
Jul 27, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		29 min
Jul 27, 3:39 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		36 min
Jul 27, 3:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Washington	18 min

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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.