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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Milwaukee, WI

May 22, 2024Iowa County, Sauk County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2024, 5:46 PM CDT for Iowa County, 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 2024, 5:46 PM CDT (22:46 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2024, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Iowa County, WI, Sauk County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 210 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 616 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 22, 3:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 3:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 2:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 22, 1:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 22, 2:17 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 22, 2:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 22, 3:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 22, 4:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 5:10 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Green, Sauk	56 min
May 21, 7:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dane, Iowa	23 min
May 21, 7:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Columbia, Sauk	35 min
May 21, 7:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Iowa, Sauk	42 min
May 21, 7:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Columbia, Green Lake, Marquette, Sauk	47 min
May 21, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MKX	Dane, Green, Iowa, Lafayette	64 min
May 21, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Green Lake, Marquette	73 min
May 21, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MKX	Dane, Jefferson, Rock	39 min
May 21, 7:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Dodge	38 min
May 21, 7:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Green, Lafayette	34 min
May 21, 7:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dane	32 min
May 21, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Marquette and 1 more	56 min
May 21, 8:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Marquette	34 min
May 21, 8:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dodge, Fond du Lac	42 min
May 21, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MKX	Iowa, Sauk	38 min
May 21, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MKX	Dane, Dodge, Green, Jefferson, Rock, Waukesha	71 min
May 21, 8:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac	34 min
May 21, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane, Green, Iowa, Lafayette	46 min
May 21, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Rock, Walworth	28 min
May 21, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Green Lake, Marquette, Sauk	23 min
May 21, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Washington	46 min
May 21, 9:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac, Sheboygan	30 min
May 21, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac	27 min
May 21, 9:10 PM CDT	Gale Warning	MKX		9 hr
May 21, 9:10 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	MKX		22 hr
May 21, 9:11 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		2 hr
May 21, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Jefferson, Waukesha	32 min
May 21, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MKX	Fond du Lac, Sheboygan	38 min
May 21, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane, Green	47 min
May 21, 9:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Green	30 min
May 21, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Dodge	36 min
May 21, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Green, Rock	50 min
May 21, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane, Dodge, Jefferson	46 min
May 21, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane, Dodge, Jefferson, Rock	50 min
May 21, 10:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dane, Jefferson	19 min
May 21, 10:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dane, Jefferson, Rock	30 min
May 21, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane, Jefferson, Rock	42 min
May 21, 11:32 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		118 min
May 21, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Jefferson, Walworth, Waukesha	42 min
May 21, 11:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Racine, Walworth, Waukesha	43 min
May 22, 12:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington, Waukesha	31 min
May 22, 12:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Milwaukee, Racine	32 min
May 22, 11:35 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Sauk	69 hr
May 22, 5:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Iowa	35 min
May 22, 6:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Iowa	31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.