Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1993, 8:05 PM CDT for Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1993, 8:05 PM CDT (01:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1993, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sheboygan County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 84 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 574 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 5, 6:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
WIZ012-016-019-013-017-020-502-060200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 645 PM CDT MON JUL 5 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN UNTIL 800 PM... AT 645 PM STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR FOX LAKE IN NORTHWEST DODGE COUNTY MOVING QUICKLY NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THROUGH 700 PM THE TOWNS OF FOND DU LAC AND WAUPUN CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN... GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT COVERED MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN. FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING STORMS. SANDLER
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 6:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
WIZ012-016-019-013-017-020-502-060200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 645 PM CDT MON JUL 5 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN UNTIL 800 PM... AT 645 PM STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR FOX LAKE IN NORTHWEST DODGE COUNTY MOVING QUICKLY NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THROUGH 700 PM THE TOWNS OF FOND DU LAC AND WAUPUN CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN... GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT COVERED MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN. FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING STORMS. SANDLER
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 7:19 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
WIZ012-016-019-013-017-020-502-060200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 720 PM CDT MON JUL 5 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN UNTIL 800 PM... AT 715 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MAINLY SOUTH CENTRAL INTO CENTRAL WISCONSIN. IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER WESTERN JEFFERSON...DODGE AND FOND DU LAC COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. ELSEWHERE... OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHWEST ILLINOIS INTO FAR EASTERN IOWA MOVING TOWARD SOUTHERN WISCONSIN. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING... VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING STORMS. SANDLER
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 7:20 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
WIZ012-016-019-013-017-020-502-060200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 720 PM CDT MON JUL 5 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN UNTIL 800 PM... AT 715 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MAINLY SOUTH CENTRAL INTO CENTRAL WISCONSIN. IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER WESTERN JEFFERSON...DODGE AND FOND DU LAC COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. ELSEWHERE... OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHWEST ILLINOIS INTO FAR EASTERN IOWA MOVING TOWARD SOUTHERN WISCONSIN. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING... VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING STORMS. SANDLER
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 7:58 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
WIZ011-015-018-019-060300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI 800 PM CDT MON JULY 5 1993 ...WIDESPREAD FLOODING ACROSS SOUTHERN WISCONSIN THIS EVENING... AT 750 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS EXTENDING FROM AROUND 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF MADISON THROUGH MADISON AND DOWN THROUGH THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF GREEN COUNTY INTO NORTHWEST ILLINOIS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR. FLOODING HAS BEEN WIDESPREAD AROUND SOUTHERN WISCONSIN WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN 3 AND 5 INCHES. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AN INCH OR MORE WILL NOT BE UNCOMMON. ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS EVENING WITH FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS FOR COLUMBIA..DANE..SAUK AND IOWA COUNTIES. MOONEY
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 7:58 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
WIZ011-015-018-019-060300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI 800 PM CDT MON JULY 5 1993 ...WIDESPREAD FLOODING ACROSS SOUTHERN WISCONSIN THIS EVENING... AT 750 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS EXTENDING FROM AROUND 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF MADISON THROUGH MADISON AND DOWN THROUGH THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF GREEN COUNTY INTO NORTHWEST ILLINOIS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR. FLOODING HAS BEEN WIDESPREAD AROUND SOUTHERN WISCONSIN WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN 3 AND 5 INCHES. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AN INCH OR MORE WILL NOT BE UNCOMMON. ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS EVENING WITH FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS FOR COLUMBIA..DANE..SAUK AND IOWA COUNTIES. MOONEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 7:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Dodge, Fond du Lac | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 9:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Dodge, Fond du Lac | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.