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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 29, 1987Walworth County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1987, 7:11 PM CDT for Walworth County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 29, 1987, 7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 1987, 7:50 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Walworth County, WI

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 29, 3:11 PM CDT, 4 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
315 PM CDT WED JUL 29 1987

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL
AND EASTERN WISCONSIN...

AT
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 3:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
315 PM CDT WED JUL 29 1987

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL
AND EASTERN WISCONSIN...

AT 310 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDER-
STORMS OVER SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT
30 MPH.  THE AREA OF STORMS WAS NOTED BETWEEN MAYVILLE..8 MILES SOUTH
OF GRAFTON AND 12 MILES NORTH-NORTHWEST OF WAUKESHA OR NORTHWBEST TO
NORTH OF MILWAUKEE ABOUT 25 AND 10 MILES RESPECTIVELY.  NO SEVERE
WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THIS OFFICE SINCE 1 PM CDT.

ADDISON
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 3:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
340 PM CDT WED JUL 29 1987

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL
AND EASTERN WISCONSIN...

AT 335 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDER-
STORMS OVER SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT
30 MPH.  THE AREA OF STORMS WAS NOTED BETWEEN WEST BEND TO 10 MILES
NORTHWEST OF WAUKESHA TO MILWAUKEE..OR GENERALLY WEST NORTHWESTd OF
MILWAUKEE.  NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THIS OFFICE SINCE
1 PM CDT.

ADDISON
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 4:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
405 PM CDT WED JUL 29 1987

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH TO EXPIRE AT 430 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL
AND EASTERN WISCONSIN...

AT 400 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDER-
STORMS OVER SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT
30 MPH.  THE AREA OF STORMS WAS NOTED BETWEEN MILWAUKEE AND WAUKESHA
..OR GENERALLY WEST OF MILWAUKEE.  NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED
TO THIS OFFICE SINCE 1 PM CDT.

ADDISON
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 4:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
445 PM CDT WED JUL 29 1987

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN WISCONSIN HAS BEEN
CANCELLED...

AT 435 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDER-
STORMS OVER EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN FROM PORT WASHINGTON TO JUST
SOUTH OF RACINE.  THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30
MILES AN HOUR AND THE HEAVIER ONES WERE OVER LAKE MICHIGAN.

ANOTHER AREA OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
AND EXTENDED FROM 50 MILES EAST OF LACROSSE TO 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
LACROSSE NEAR READSTOWN.  THESE SORMS WERE ALSO MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST
AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

BROCKEL
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 6:51 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
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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.