Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1994, 2:41 PM CDT for Dane County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 1994, 2:41 PM CDT (19:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1994, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dane County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -245 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 690 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 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 191941 RRA SVRMSN WIC025-192045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI 241 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MADISON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...DANE COUNTY AT 238PM CDT DANE COUNTY SHERRIF OFFICER REPORTED TREES DOWN IN WESTERN DANE COUNTY...NEAR MAZOMANIE OR ABOUT 27 MILES WEST OF MADISON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THE STORM ARE...BLACK EARTH...MIDDLETON... MADISON...SUN PRAIRIE AND MARSHALL. IF THIS STORM APPROACHES YOU...SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASlSED. STIMACH &
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 19, 2:13 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
WIZ011>013-019>022-031-037>040-048>050-192015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 213 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 210 PM INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 15 MILES NORTH OF WAUSAU...NEAR MERRILL...AND WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. SMALL HAIL...WINDS TO 40 MPH AND HEAVY RAINS ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE ANTIGO IN LANGLADE COUNTY AND ANIWA IN SHAWANO COUNTY. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...THESE STORMS ARE BEING MONITORED AND MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS THIS AFTERNOON. MOEDE
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 2:15 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
WIZ011>013-019>022-031-037>040-048>050-192015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 213 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 210 PM INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 15 MILES NORTH OF WAUSAU...NEAR MERRILL...AND WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. SMALL HAIL...WINDS TO 40 MPH AND HEAVY RAINS ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE ANTIGO IN LANGLADE COUNTY AND ANIWA IN SHAWANO COUNTY. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...THESE STORMS ARE BEING MONITORED AND MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS THIS AFTERNOON. MOEDE
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 2:38 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
WIZ019-192040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 238 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING WESTERN LANGLADE COUNTY... AT 235 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF THE TOWN OF MERRILL OR 30 MILES WEST OF THE CITY OF ANTIGO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN LANGLADE COUNTY BY 3 PM AND BE NEAR ANTIGO BY 330 PM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE IN WESTERN LANGLADE COUNTY SHOULD BE READY TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY WHEN THESE THUNDERSTORMS REACH YOUR LOCATION. WWUS35KTLH .U
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 2:40 PM CDT, 1 minute before
WIZ019-192040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 238 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING WESTERN LANGLADE COUNTY... AT 235 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF THE TOWN OF MERRILL OR 30 MILES WEST OF THE CITY OF ANTIGO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN LANGLADE COUNTY BY 3 PM AND BE NEAR ANTIGO BY 330 PM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE IN WESTERN LANGLADE COUNTY SHOULD BE READY TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY WHEN THESE THUNDERSTORMS REACH YOUR LOCATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Rock | 68 min |
| Aug 19, 10:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Iowa, Richland, Sauk | 52 min |
| Aug 19, 12:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Dane | 25 min |
| Aug 19, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Iowa | 64 min |
| Aug 19, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Green | 63 min |
| Aug 19, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Iowa | 42 min |
| Aug 19, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Rock | 57 min |
| Aug 19, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Green | 46 min |
| Aug 19, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Green, Rock | 74 min |
| Aug 19, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Shawano | 51 min |
| Aug 19, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waupaca | 65 min |
| Aug 19, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Brown, Outagamie, Waupaca | 50 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.