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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 25, 2016, 2:42 PM CDT for 4 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 33 min. 5 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
- Sep 25, 2016, 2:42 PM CDT (19:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2016, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Dane County, WI, Jefferson County, WI, Rock County, WI, Walworth County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 2:44 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Nne Milton, WI | LARGE TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES DOWN BY THUNDERSTORM WINDS NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF HWY 26 AND COUNTY LINE ROAD. TIMING UPDATED BASED ON RADAR. |
| Sep 25, 2:49 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Milton, WI | TWO TREES DOWNED BY THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS NEAR COUNTY LINE ROAD. TIME UPDATED BASED ON RADAR. |
| Sep 25, 2:55 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 4 Ssw Fort Atkinson, WI | MULTIPLE TREES DOWN...SOME COVERING A ROAD NEAR LAKE KOSHKONONG. |
| Sep 25, 3:05 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Nne Milton, WI | LARGE TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES DOWN BY THUNDERSTORM WINDS NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF HWY 26 AND COUNTY LINE ROAD. |
| Sep 25, 3:05 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | N Milton, WI | TWO TREES DOWNED BY THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS NEAR COUNTY LINE ROAD. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1111 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
364 WUUS53 KMKX 251942 SVRMKX WIC025-055-105-127-252015- /O.NEW.KMKX.SV.W.0085.160925T1942Z-160925T2015Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 242 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN... NORTHWESTERN WALWORTH COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN... SOUTHEASTERN DANE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN... NORTHEASTERN ROCK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN... * UNTIL 315 PM CDT * AT 242 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER MILTON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS. SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WHITEWATER...FORT ATKINSON...JEFFERSON...MILTON...EDGERTON... PALMYRA...LAKE KOSHKONONG...ROME...HEBRON... INDIANFORD AND HELENVILLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && LAT...LON 4272 8899 4281 8912 4307 8872 4286 8854 TIME...MOT...LOC 1942Z 238DEG 32KT 4279 8900 HAIL...<.75IN WIND...60MPH $$ SPM
3 follow-up statements
606
WWUS53 KMKX 251956
SVSMKX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
256 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2016
WIC025-252006-
/O.CAN.KMKX.SV.W.0085.000000T0000Z-160925T2015Z/
DANE WI-
256 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN DANE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF
THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE...THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 4275 8891 4278 8898 4288 8901 4307 8872
4286 8854
TIME...MOT...LOC 1956Z 238DEG 32KT 4286 8885
$$
WIC055-105-127-252015-
/O.CON.KMKX.SV.W.0085.000000T0000Z-160925T2015Z/
JEFFERSON WI-WALWORTH WI-ROCK WI-
256 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHERN JEFFERSON...NORTHWESTERN WALWORTH AND NORTHEASTERN ROCK
COUNTIES...
AT 256 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FORT
ATKINSON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WHITEWATER...FORT ATKINSON...JEFFERSON...MILTON...PALMYRA...LAKE
KOSHKONONG...ROME...HEBRON AND HELENVILLE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 4275 8891 4278 8898 4288 8901 4307 8872
4286 8854
TIME...MOT...LOC 1956Z 238DEG 32KT 4286 8885
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
SPM931
WWUS53 KMKX 252000
SVSMKX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
300 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2016
WIC055-105-127-252015-
/O.CON.KMKX.SV.W.0085.000000T0000Z-160925T2015Z/
JEFFERSON WI-WALWORTH WI-ROCK WI-
300 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHERN JEFFERSON...NORTHWESTERN WALWORTH AND NORTHEASTERN ROCK
COUNTIES...
AT 300 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FORT
ATKINSON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WHITEWATER...FORT ATKINSON...JEFFERSON...PALMYRA...LAKE KOSHKONONG...
ROME...HEBRON AND HELENVILLE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 4281 8880 4283 8890 4294 8892 4307 8872
4286 8854
TIME...MOT...LOC 2000Z 238DEG 32KT 4288 8881
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
SPM089
WWUS53 KMKX 252005
SVSMKX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
305 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2016
WIC105-127-252014-
/O.CAN.KMKX.SV.W.0085.000000T0000Z-160925T2015Z/
WALWORTH WI-ROCK WI-
305 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN WALWORTH AND
NORTHEASTERN ROCK COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF
THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE...THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 4285 8875 4286 8885 4291 8888 4307 8872
4286 8854
TIME...MOT...LOC 2004Z 238DEG 32KT 4290 8877
$$
WIC055-252015-
/O.CON.KMKX.SV.W.0085.000000T0000Z-160925T2015Z/
JEFFERSON WI-
305 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY...
AT 304 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FORT
ATKINSON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. AT 300 PM CDT...TWO TREES
WERE REPORTED DOWN NEAR MILTON.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WHITEWATER...FORT ATKINSON...PALMYRA...ROME...HEBRON AND HELENVILLE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 4285 8875 4286 8885 4291 8888 4307 8872
4286 8854
TIME...MOT...LOC 2004Z 238DEG 32KT 4290 8877
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
SPMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 9:45 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | MKX | Sauk | 69 hr |
| Sep 25, 1:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Green | 23 min |
| Sep 25, 2:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Rock | 47 min |
| Sep 25, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock | 36 min |
| Sep 25, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Waukesha | 34 min |
| Sep 25, 3:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Dodge | 25 min |
| Sep 25, 3:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Waukesha | 52 min |
| Sep 25, 3:52 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 83 min | |
| Sep 25, 3:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Washington | 46 min |
| Sep 25, 4:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MKX | Milwaukee | 34 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.