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Special Weather Statement, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 21, 2016Milwaukee County, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this special weather statement at Jul 21, 2016, 6:21 PM CDT for Milwaukee County, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 54 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: Jul 21, 2016, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2016, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI

Counties Milwaukee County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 1904 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 686 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

595 
WWUS83 KMKX 212321
SPSMKX

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
621 PM CDT THU JUL 21 2016

WIZ059-060-065-066-220015-
MILWAUKEE-OZAUKEE-WAUKESHA-WASHINGTON-
621 PM CDT THU JUL 21 2016

...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT EASTERN WASHINGTON...
OZAUKEE...MILWAUKEE AND EASTERN WAUKESHA COUNTIES...

AT 619 PM CDT...STRONG WINDS AHEAD OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE
OVER MEQUON...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH ARE LIKELY AND PEA SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE
AS THE STORMS ARRIVE.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MILWAUKEE...WEST ALLIS...WAUWATOSA...NEW BERLIN...BROOKFIELD...
GREENFIELD...MENOMONEE FALLS...OAK CREEK...MUSKEGO...MEQUON...
SOUTH MILWAUKEE...CUDAHY...WHITEFISH BAY...GREENDALE...BROWN DEER...
GRAFTON...CEDARBURG...PORT WASHINGTON...ST. FRANCIS AND HALES
CORNERS.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

LAT...LON 4338 8787 4326 8791 4318 8788 4312 8790
      4307 8787 4302 8790 4296 8785 4288 8785
      4285 8782 4284 8784 4284 8814 4354 8810
      4354 8780 4349 8779
TIME...MOT...LOC 2319Z 274DEG 44KT 4324 8804 

$$

BSH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 8:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Green Lake, Marquette	57 min
Jul 21, 8:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac	64 min
Jul 21, 8:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Marquette	26 min
Jul 21, 9:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dodge, Green Lake, Marquette	37 min
Jul 21, 9:21 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		114 min
Jul 21, 9:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Sheboygan	62 min
Jul 21, 9:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Columbia, Dodge, Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Washington	32 min
Jul 21, 10:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Ozaukee, Waukesha	33 min
Jul 21, 10:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Milwaukee, Racine	29 min
Jul 21, 10:49 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		86 min
Jul 21, 11:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Kenosha, Racine	32 min
Jul 21, 11:42 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	MKX	Dane, Green, Iowa, Jefferson, Kenosha, Lafayette and 6 more	31 hr
Jul 21, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Green Lake, Marquette	60 min
Jul 21, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Sauk	56 min
Jul 21, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dodge, Green Lake, Marquette	55 min
Jul 21, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green Lake	62 min
Jul 21, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Sauk	65 min
Jul 21, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dodge, Jefferson, Waukesha	60 min
Jul 21, 5:38 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		112 min
Jul 21, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Dane	57 min
Jul 21, 5:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Washington	54 min
Jul 21, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Jefferson, Rock	42 min
Jul 21, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dodge, Racine, Rock, Walworth, Washington, Waukesha	67 min
Jul 21, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane	45 min
Jul 21, 6:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Jefferson, Rock, Sauk	3 hr
Jul 21, 6:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Rock	58 min
Jul 21, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Kenosha, Racine, Rock, Walworth	54 min
Jul 21, 6:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Jefferson, Sauk	3 hr
Jul 21, 6:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Kenosha, Racine	65 min
Jul 21, 6:47 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MKX	Sauk	3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.