Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 1993, 4:46 PM CDT for Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 1993, 4:46 PM CDT (21:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 1993, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fond du Lac County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -156 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Aug 23, 3:47 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
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WIZ012-016-232230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 428 PM CDT MON AUG 23 1993 AT 430 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO WESTERN DODGE COUNTY. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE STORMS IS MOVING INTO THE CITIES OF FOX LAKE...BEAVER DAM AND REESEVILLE...ABOUT 30 TO 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF MADISON. THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL BE HEADING INTO SOUTHWEST FOND DU LAC COUNTY WITHIN ABOUT 10 MINUTES. SOME OTHER CITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE BRANDON...BYRON AND FOND DU LAC IN FOND DU LAC COUNTY. THESE STORMS PRODUCED WIND GUSTS OF 45 MPH AT MADISON AS THEY ROLLED THROUGH. SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF DANGEROUS WEATHER MOVES IN. DAVIS
Special weather statement, Aug 23, 4:28 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
WIZ012-016-232230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 428 PM CDT MON AUG 23 1993 AT 430 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO WESTERN DODGE COUNTY. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE STORMS IS MOVING INTO THE CITIES OF FOX LAKE...BEAVER DAM AND REESEVILLE...ABOUT 30 TO 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF MADISON. THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL BE HEADING INTO SOUTHWEST FOND DU LAC COUNTY WITHIN ABOUT 10 MINUTES. SOME OTHER CITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE BRANDON...BYRON AND FOND DU LAC IN FOND DU LAC COUNTY. THESE STORMS PRODUCED WIND GUSTS OF 45 MPH AT MADISON AS THEY ROLLED THROUGH. SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF DANGEROUS WEATHER MOVES IN. DAVIS
Special weather statement, Aug 23, 4:45 PM CDT, 1 minute before
WIZ015-019-240000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI 445 PM CDT MON AUG 23 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 9PM CDT... AT 440 PM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAS MONITORING A DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTH OF MADISON IN WESTERN ROCK COUNTY. PEA-SIZED HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AS IT MOVES TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. SOME CITIES AND TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE LEYDEN..EDGERTON..NEWVILLE AND MILTON. PERSONS IN AND NEAR THESE LOCATIONS SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. MOONEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Ozaukee | 35 min |
| Aug 23, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Washington | 26 min |
| Aug 23, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha | 28 min |
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.