Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2016, 2:16 PM CDT for Sauk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 29 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
- May 25, 2016, 2:16 PM CDT (19:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2016, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Sauk County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
070
WUUS53 KMKX 251916
SVRMKX
WIC111-251945-
/O.NEW.KMKX.SV.W.0003.160525T1916Z-160525T1945Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
216 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN SAUK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN...
* UNTIL 245 PM CDT
* AT 216 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LA FARGE...OR
14 MILES NORTHWEST OF RICHLAND CENTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
NORTHWESTERN SAUK COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4364 9017 4355 9019 4356 9031 4364 9031
TIME...MOT...LOC 1916Z 218DEG 26KT 4351 9055
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
BSH1 follow-up statement
836
WWUS53 KMKX 251931
SVSMKX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
231 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2016
WIC111-251945-
/O.CON.KMKX.SV.W.0003.000000T0000Z-160525T1945Z/
SAUK WI-
231 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 PM CDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN SAUK COUNTY...
AT 230 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF HILLSBORO...OR 18 MILES NORTH OF RICHLAND CENTER...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO
ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
NORTHWESTERN SAUK COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4364 9017 4355 9019 4356 9031 4364 9031
TIME...MOT...LOC 1930Z 218DEG 26KT 4359 9046
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
SPMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 10:55 AM CDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | MKX | 8 hr | |
| May 25, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sauk | 18 min |
| May 25, 2:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Dane | 43 min |
| May 25, 3:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Marquette | 44 min |
| May 25, 3:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Dane, Jefferson, Rock | 46 min |
| May 25, 3:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Fond du Lac, Green Lake | 67 min |
| May 25, 4:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Green Lake | 31 min |
| May 25, 4:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Dodge | 51 min |
| May 25, 4:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Walworth | 40 min |
| May 25, 5:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Waukesha | 38 min |
| May 25, 5:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Green Lake | 29 min |
| May 25, 5:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Green | 44 min |
| May 25, 5:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Marquette | 50 min |
| May 25, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Marquette | 33 min |
| May 25, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Marquette | 26 min |
| May 25, 6:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Green Lake | 46 min |
| May 25, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green Lake | 32 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.