Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1994, 3:03 PM CDT for Rock County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 1994, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1994, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rock County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 993 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMSN 032005 RRA
SVRMSN
WIC105-032100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
303 PM CDT WED AUG 3 1994
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MADISON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
...ROCK COUNTY
AT 300 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERTORM 3 MILES NORTH
OF ORFORDVILLE OR 35 MILES SOUTH OF MADISON MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35
MPH. ROCK COUTNY SHERIFF DEPUTIES REPORTED SHEDS...TREES AND BARNS DOWN
NEAR ORFORDVILLE.
SOME CITIES AND TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
JANESVILLE...FULTON...MILTON...EDGERTON.
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSS INGS.
MARIENWhat 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 3, 11:26 AM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
WIZ048-049-031730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1126 AM CDT WED AUG 3 1994 AT 1120 AM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH THE TOWN OF NEENAH...INTO NORTHERN LAKE WINNEBAGO. THE NEENAH RADAR OPERATOR REPORTED DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND 1/2 INCH OF RAIN IN 30 MINUTES AS THE STORM MOVED THROUGH THE NEENAH AREA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN CALUMET >COUNTY BY 1145 AM CDT. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED SOUTHWESTWARD ACROSS LAKE WINNEBAGO TO NEAR OSHKOSH. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. EB
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 11:26 AM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
WIZ048-049-031730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1126 AM CDT WED AUG 3 1994 AT 1120 AM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH THE TOWN OF NEENAH...INTO NORTHERN LAKE WINNEBAGO. THE NEENAH RADAR OPERATOR REPORTED DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND 1/2 INCH OF RAIN IN 30 MINUTES AS THE STORM MOVED THROUGH THE NEENAH AREA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN CALUMET >COUNTY BY 1145 AM CDT. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED SOUTHWESTWARD ACROSS LAKE WINNEBAGO TO NEAR OSHKOSH. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. EB
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 11:48 AM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
WIZ049-050-503-031750- SPECIAL WEATHER AND MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1148 AM CDT WED AUG 3 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CALUMET COUNTY... AT 1145 AM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CALUMET COUNTY ABOUT 25 MILES WEST OF THE CITY OF MANITOWOC. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REACH THE NEARSHORE FROM KEWAUNEE TO SHEBOYGAN BETWEEN 1230 AND 1245 PM. THESE STORMS CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAINS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. BOATERS ON LAKE MICHIGAN FROM KEWAUNEE TO SHEBOYGAN SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS AND SEEK PORT BEFORE THESE STORMS ARRIVE. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A THUNDERSTORM IS IN A STURDY BUILDING. IF POSSIBLE...MOVE TO SHELTER BEFORE THE STORM ARRIVES. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN AN OPEN FIELD...STAY AWAY FROM TALL OBJECTS SUCH AS LONE TREES.
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 2:09 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
WIZ039-040-050-503-032010- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 209 PM CDT WED AUG 3 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 205 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GREEN BAY TO 15 MILES WEST OF THE CITY OF MANITOWOC. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE ACROSS EASTERN BROWN...KEWAUNEE AND MANITOWOC COUNTIES BY 245 PM. THESE STORMS CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAINS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. BOATERS ON LAKE MICHIGAN FROM KEWAUNEE TO CLEVELAND SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING THE NEARSHORE WATERS. DC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marquette | 57 min |
| Aug 3, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Green Lake | 61 min |
| Aug 3, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Dane | 59 min |
| Aug 3, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Iowa | 63 min |
| Aug 3, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Dane | 54 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.