Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2016, 4:33 PM CDT for Lafayette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 27 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 28, 2016, 4:33 PM CDT (21:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2016, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Lafayette County, WI
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 1:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
955 WUUS53 KMKX 282133 SVRMKX WIC065-282200- /O.NEW.KMKX.SV.W.0008.160528T2133Z-160528T2200Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 433 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN... * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 432 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SCALES MOUND... OR 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF GALENA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL. SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SHULLSBURG...SOMERS...WIOTA...LAMONT AND GRATIOT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING. && LAT...LON 4251 9036 4273 9000 4261 8987 4251 9012 TIME...MOT...LOC 2132Z 229DEG 26KT 4252 9027 TORNADO...POSSIBLE HAIL...0.88IN WIND...60MPH $$ DDV
1 follow-up statement
719 WWUS53 KMKX 282152 SVSMKX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 452 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2016 WIC065-282200- /O.CON.KMKX.SV.W.0008.000000T0000Z-160528T2200Z/ LAFAYETTE WI- 452 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2016 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY... AT 451 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DARLINGTON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL. SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SOMERS...WIOTA...LAMONT AND GRATIOT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING. && LAT...LON 4273 9000 4261 8987 4252 9009 4260 9022 TIME...MOT...LOC 2151Z 213DEG 30KT 4263 9014 TORNADO...POSSIBLE HAIL...0.88IN WIND...60MPH $$ DAVIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa, Lafayette | 47 min |
| May 28, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Iowa, Lafayette, Sauk | 31 min |
| May 28, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane, Iowa, Sauk | 31 min |
| May 28, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane, Sauk | 31 min |
| May 28, 6:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Columbia, Dane, Green Lake, Rock | 45 min |
| May 28, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Rock | 31 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.