Thunderstorm Wind, Dane
- When
- June 14, 2:46 PM CST
- Where
- Dane County, 1 mi W of Mt Horeb
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) measured gust
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 43.000, -89.750
Powerful thunderstorm wind gusts broke large branches out of trees.
Hail and Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, June 14, 2008
An upper-level impulse along with steep lapse rates produced scattered severe thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening. Large hail and downburst, straight-line winds, affectes parts of south-central and southeast Wisconsin.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $20,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 6
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS MKX wrote it up.
An upper-level impulse along with steep lapse rates produced scattered severe thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening. Large hail and downburst, straight-line winds, affectes parts of south-central and southeast Wisconsin.
What forecasters said that day
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 14, 1:18 PM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 1:18 PM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 218 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2008 .TONIGHT...WATER VAPOR/RUC COMBO SHOWS A COUPLE OF IMPULSES UPSTREAM WITHIN THE BROAD CYCLONIC FLOW. H5 TEMPS -17 TO -19C WITH SFC DEWS IN THE MID 50S. LI AXIS AROUND -5 STRETCHES ACRS THE CWA AHEAD OF TROUGH. BUFKIT SOUNDINGS SHOW INVERTED-V PROFILE. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE HANDLED POORLY IN MODEL SOUNDINGS GIVEN REAL WORLD TRENDS. IN FACT ONGOING CONVECTION ALONG AND SOUTH OF A DBQ TO ALO LINE FEEDING OFF THE BETTER MOISTURE. HOWEVER DECENT MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES AND VEERING WIND PROFILES SUGGEST STORM ORGANIZATION WILL BE THERE SHOULD STORMS GET GOING ACRS SRN WI. CURRENT SVR WATCH JUST SOUTH OF CWA GIVEN ANTICIPATED LOCATION OF GREATEST STORM COVERAGE...BUT WATCH DOES BUMP TO THE BORDER. .SUNDAY...ANOTHER IMPULSE ARRIVES WITH COLD FRONT AND GOOD RRQ UPR JET...POSSIBLY EVEN COUPLED WITHIN TWO SEGMENTS...WILL PROBABLY LEAD TO A ROUND OF STORMS ACROSS THE CWA ON SUNDAY. THIS MAY BE ONGOING FROM A COMPLEX THAT INITIATES UPSTREAM OVERNIGHT. MORE MOISTURE WORKS IT WAY UP AHEAD OF THE FRONT WITH SOUNDINGS SHOWING GOOD INSTABILITY. SLGT RISK FOR SEVERE FROM SPC LOOKS GOOD. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WITH THIS ROUND WILL BE HEAVY UNDER THE SCATTERED STORMS. HOWEVER...THEY WILL BE ON THE MOVE AND AREAL ACCUMULATIONS SHOULD NOT BE ENOUGH TO HAVE APPRECIABLE IMPACT ON CURRENT RIVER TRENDS. .MONDAY AND BEYOND...DRY COOL AIR MOVES IN IN WAKE OF THE COLD FRONT SUNDAY NIGHT. HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FOR MOST OF NEXT WEEK. THERE IS SOME INDICATION THAT WE COULD SEE SOME DIURNAL /PEAK HEATING/ SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS TUE THROUGH THU...BUT NOT ENOUGH CONFIDENCE TO CHANGE COURSE NOW. AT ANY RATE...PROBABILITIES WOULD BE SMALL AND RAINFALL AMOUNTS LIGHT. AGAIN...NO IMPACT ON RIVER TRENDS EXPECTED. IT SHOULD BE A GOOD WEEK AHEAD FOR DRYING OUT. && .AVIATION...A COUPLE OF CHANCES FOR CONVECTION...ONE THIS EVENING WITH DAYTIME HEATING INTERACTING WITH SFC TROUGH AND UPPER LEVEL IMPULSE/JETLET...THEN ANOTHER SHOT WITH COLD FRONT TOMORROW. BY AND LARGE EXPECT VFR CIGS/VSBYS THRU MIDDAY TOMORROW. CONVECTION SHOULD MOVE ALONG SO ANY REDUCTIIONS TO SUB-VFR CONDITIONS SHOULD BE BRIEF. .MARINE...DECENT PRES GRADIENT AHEAD OF TROUGH...SO SW WINDS GUSTING INTO CRITERIA. WENT WITH SCA INTO THE EVENING HOURS. WINDS PROGGD TO DECREASE INTO MID EVE WITH LESS MIXING AND A MORE RELAXED GRADIENT WITH PASSAGE OF TROUGH AND HINT OF RDGING SLIDING ACRS BY MIDNIGHT. && .MKX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WI...NONE. LM...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR LMZ643>646. && SHORT/LONG TERM...05 AVIATION/MARINE...10
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 2:25 PM CST, 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 325 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2008 WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-150900- MARQUETTE-GREEN LAKE-FOND DU LAC-SHEBOYGAN-SAUK-COLUMBIA-DODGE- WASHINGTON-OZAUKEE-IOWA-DANE-JEFFERSON-WAUKESHA-MILWAUKEE- LAFAYETTE-GREEN-ROCK-WALWORTH-RACINE-KENOSHA- 325 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN THROUGH 8 PM. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE MAIN THREATS. AN AREAL FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR THE ENTIRE REGION. WIDESPREAD FLOODING CONTINUES WITH NUMEROUS CLOSINGS OF INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS AND MAJOR HIGHWAYS. HIGH WATER WILL CONTINUE OVER MANY AREAS INTO THE WEEKEND. MANY LAKES...RIVERS AND STREAMS REMAIN AT...OR ARE EXPECTED TO REACH RECORD LEVELS. SEE OUR ADVANCED HYDROLOGIC PREDICTION SERVICES INTERNET PAGE FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY AND SUNDAY EVENING. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. AN AREAL FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 130 PM SUNDAY FOR THE ENTIRE REGION. HIGH WATER WILL CONTINUE OVER MANY AREAS. MANY LAKES...RIVERS AND STREAMS WILL REMAIN WELL ABOVE FLOOD STAGE THROUGH THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON...TONIGHT AND AGAIN SUNDAY. LMZ643>646-150900- SHEBOYGAN TO PORT WASHINGTON WI- PORT WASHINGTON TO NORTH POINT LIGHT WI- NORTH POINT LIGHT TO WIND POINT WI- WIND POINT WI TO WINTHROP HARBOR IL- 325 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN THROUGH 8 PM. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE MAIN THREATS. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM DUE TO GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY AND SUNDAY EVENING. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. COLLAR WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MKX
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 98 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:00 UTC.
Event by event
4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Dane
- When
- June 14, 2:57 PM CST
- Where
- Dane County, Mc Farland
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 43.020, -89.280
Hail, Jefferson
- When
- June 14, 3:20 PM CST to 3:21 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County, 2 mi W of Lake Mills to Lake Mills
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 43.080, -88.940
Hail, Dane
- When
- June 14, 3:42 PM CST
- Where
- Dane County, Sun Prairie
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 43.180, -89.200
Hail, Jefferson
- When
- June 14, 3:54 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County, Watertown
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 43.200, -88.720
Lightning, Milwaukee
- When
- June 14, 4:40 PM CST
- Where
- Milwaukee County, Wauwatosa
- Property damage
- $20,000
- Reported by
- Newspaper
- Coordinates
- 43.050, -87.950
Lightning struck a home and started a fire that damage the roof.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Lightning
- A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Pennsylvania, June 14, 2008
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Dakota, June 14, 2008
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, June 14, 2008
- Flash Flood in Iowa, June 14, 2008
- Rip Current in Texas, June 14, 2008
- Flash Flood in Iowa, June 14, 2008
- Flash Flooding in Vermont, June 14 to 15, 2008
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 14, 2008
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, June 14, 2008
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, June 14 to 15, 2008
- Flash Flood in Illinois, June 14, 2008
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, June 14, 2008
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Wisconsin, June 2008
Sources
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: 118300, 118301, 118303, 118302, 118304, 121138.