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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Milwaukee, WI

August 23, 1993Kenosha County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 1993, 6:02 PM CDT for Kenosha County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 23, 1993, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 1993, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Kenosha County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 213 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1993-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 115 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1993-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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, 4:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
WIZ012-016-017-232300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
457 PM CDT MON AUG 23 1993

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH DODGE COUNTY...

AT 455 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING
INTO EASTERN DODGE COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN.  THE STORMS
STRETCHED FROM NEAR BROWNSVILLE IN NORTHEAST DODGE COUNTY TO
NEOSHO IN THE SOUTHEAST.

THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.  SOME OTHER TOWNS
IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE HUSTIFORD...WOODLAND...HORICON
AND MAYVILLE.  THE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO WESTERN WASHINGTON
COUNTY BY 500 PM...NEAR THE CITIES OF ALLENTOWN AND KOLHSVILLE.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE LIKELY.  HAIL IS
ALSO POSSIBLE.

PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

DAVIS
Special weather statement, Aug 23, 4:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
WIZ012-016-017-232300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
457 PM CDT MON AUG 23 1993

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH DODGE COUNTY...

AT 455 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING
INTO EASTERN DODGE COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN.  THE STORMS
STRETCHED FROM NEAR BROWNSVILLE IN NORTHEAST DODGE COUNTY TO
NEOSHO IN THE SOUTHEAST.

THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.  SOME OTHER TOWNS
IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE HUSTIFORD...WOODLAND...HORICON
AND MAYVILLE.  THE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO WESTERN WASHINGTON
COUNTY BY 500 PM...NEAR THE CITIES OF ALLENTOWN AND KOLHSVILLE.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE LIKELY.  HAIL IS
ALSO POSSIBLE.

PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

DAVIS
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 23, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXFond du Lac44 min
Aug 23, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXOzaukee35 min
Aug 23, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXWashington26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993

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.