A few severe weather events were recorded as slow moving scattered thunderstorms developed across portions of south-central and southeast Wisconsin. Damaging straigth-line winds and large hail were noted.
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The episode as NWS MKX wrote it up.
A few severe weather events were recorded as slow moving scattered thunderstorms developed across portions of south-central and southeast Wisconsin. Damaging straigth-line winds and large hail were noted.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 27, 1:29 PM CST, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 229 PM CDT TUE JUN 27 2006 .DISCUSSION...FORECAST FOCUS ON PCPN/TSTM CHANCES NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. IN THE SHORT TERM...BASED ON RUC ANALYSIS AND WATER VAPOR IMAGERY...12Z NAM HAS BEST HANDLE ON STRENGTH AND POSITION OF POTENT 23 UNIT VORT MAX DROPPING INTO NW WI AT 17Z. NAM ALSO SHOWED THIS STRENGTH AND TIMING 24 HRS AGO SO GENERALLY WILL BE FOLLOWED. WEAK LEAD SHORT WV THAT EJECTED AHEAD OF MAIN SHRT WAVE TRIGGERED A FEW SHRA/TSTMS THIS MORNING OVER SW CWA IN VICINITY OF NEARLY STATIONARY SFC TROF ALONG A GRB TO DBQ LINE. BETTER DCVA WILL PASS OVER NRN WI CLOSER TO CENTER OF VIGOROUS SHRT WV...BUT SOME LARGE SCALE LIFT EXPECTED AS VORT ADVECTION BRUSHES SRN WI LATE THIS AFTERNOON/EVE. TEMPS HEATING OUT INTO THE MID TO UPPER 70S AND DEW PTS IN THE UPR 50S ARE PRODUCING SCT TSTMS ATTM WITH SFC BASED LI/S OF -3 TO -5 OVER SRN WI AHEAD OF STATIONARY PRESSURE TROUGH AND ALONG LAKE BREEZE BOUNDARY. EXPECT THIS INITIAL TSTM AREA ALONG LEADING EDGE OF MID LVL DRY PUNCH AHEAD OF SHRT WV TO PUSH EAST BY EARLY EVENING AS LOWER DEW PT AIR SPREADS INTO SRN WI BEHIND TROF. ANY CONVECTION THAT DEVELOPS IN ERN MN...NW AND WRN WI IN IMMEDIATE VCNTY OF VORT SHOULD DIMINISH TO SHRA WITH LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. WILL GO WITH SCT THUNDERSTORMS FOR THIS EVENING...THEN TAPER TO ISOLATED SHRA OVERNIGHT AS DRIER AIR MOVES IN AND SFC BNDRY SAGS SOUTH INTO IL. NAM AND GFS HAVE COME MORE IN LINE WITH GENERAL TIMING/POSITION OF UPR TROF. SHORT WAVE CENTERED NEAR HAYWARD AT 18Z TODAY WILL REACH GRB AROUND 12Z WED. A SLIGHT CHC OF SHRA WED MORNING WITH INSTABILITY AS -16 TO -18C COLD POOL AT 500 MB SETTLING OVER STATE. SERIES OF WEAK WAVES DROPS IN BEHIND MAIN SHRT WV WED AFTERNOON AND EVENING. COLD POOL PRODUCING 700-500MB LAPSE RATES OF 6-7 DEG C. WHILE Q-VECTOR CONVERGENCE/FRONTOGENETIC FORCING IN THE 1000-850 MB LAYER IS FOCUSED MORE ALONG BNDRY TO OUR SOUTH...FCST SNDGS WITH TEMP/DEW PT OF 73F/57F FOR MSN AT 22Z SHOW CAPES AROUND 500 J/KG. DEW PT LOOKS A BIT OVERDONE...BUT TEMP IS A BIT LOW. EXPECT ENOUGH INSTABILITY AND CAPE TO GO ALONG WITH DYNAMICS TO KEEP CHC THUNDER FOR WED AFTERNOON...WITH SHRA/ISOLATED TSTMS LINGERING INTO WED NIGHT WITH LAST IN THE SERIES OF SHRT WAVES MOVING THRU. FOR THE LATER PERIODS GFS/ECMWF CONTINUE TO SHOW UPR LVL RIDGE AXIS PUSHING UPR TROF OUT OF WI BY THURSDAY. SFC RDG BLDG INTO REGION SHOULD BRING AT LEAST A TEMPORARY BREAK TO TO THE PCPN CHCS. LOW LVL FLOW EXPECTED TO BECOME MORE SWLY BY FRI...WITH 850MB TEMPS FROM GFS/ECMWF APPROACHING 18-20C BY SAT...RESULTING IN MAX TEMPS RISING BACK INTO THE 80S. COLD FRONT/SFC TROF DROPPING THRU STATE WILL BRING PCPN CHCS LT FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY AND MAY TEMPER SAT HI/S A BIT. MID RANGE MODELS PUSH FRONT SOUTH OF STATE FOR SUNDAY THEN STALLING OVER NRN/CNTRL IL. GFS KEEPS PCPN WITH WAA AHEAD OF SFC WAVE MOVING ALONG FRONT SOUTH OF STATE MONDAY...WHILE ECMWF/DGEX BRINGING PCPN INTO STATE. WILL LEAVE CURRENT CHC IN PLACE FOR NOW...BUT TAKE PCPN OUT FOR MONDAY NIGHT AS ALL MODELS SHOW HI BUILDING BACK OVER RGN IN WAKE OF WAVE AND FRONT RETREATING SWD. && .MKX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && REM
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 840 AM CDT TUE JUN 27 2006 WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-280945- MARQUETTE-GREEN LAKE-FOND DU LAC-SHEBOYGAN-SAUK-COLUMBIA-DODGE- WASHINGTON-OZAUKEE-IOWA-DANE-JEFFERSON-WAUKESHA-MILWAUKEE- LAFAYETTE-GREEN-ROCK-WALWORTH-RACINE-KENOSHA- 840 AM CDT TUE JUN 27 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREATS ARE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND AGAIN SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. LMZ643>646-665-280945- SHEBOYGAN TO PORT WASHINGTON- PORT WASHINGTON TO NORTH POINT LIGHTHOUSE- NORTH POINT LIGHTHOUSE TO WIND POINT- WIND POINT TO WINTHROP HARBOR ILLINOIS- WISCONSIN ADJACENT OPEN WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN TO MID LAKE- 840 AM CDT TUE JUN 27 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREATS ARE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND AGAIN SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. COLLAR
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
307 PM CDT TUE JUN 27 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0249 PM HAIL 7 W CASCADE 43.66N 88.15W
06/27/2006 E0.50 INCH SHEBOYGAN WI PUBLIC
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DRHPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
643 PM CDT TUE JUN 27 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0643 PM HAIL 1 N BEAVER DAM 43.48N 88.84W
06/27/2006 E0.75 INCH DODGE WI LAW ENFORCEMENT
LAW ENFORCEMENT ESTIMATED DIME SIZE HAIL JUST NORTH OF
THE CITY.
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DRHThe Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 60 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:50 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Three trees, 1 powerline, and 1 cable line were reported down due to powerful thunderstorm winds.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Wisconsin in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Wisconsin, June 2006
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5515677, 5515678, 5515676.