Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 23, 1994, 9:49 PM CST for Waukesha County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 1994, 9:49 PM CST (03:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 1994, 10:30 PM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Waukesha County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 1121 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 529 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1079 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 240351 SVRMKE WIC055-133-240430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 949 PM CST WED MAR 23 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...JEFFERSON COUNTY...WAUKESHA COUNTY A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS BEEN DETECTED BY WEATHER RADAR IN JEFFERSON COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. THE LINE WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 40 MPH...AND WILL BE AFFECTING WAUKESHA COUNTY BY 1010 PM. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, Mar 23, 8:05 PM CST, 1 hour 44 minutes before
WIZ043-055-062-068-044-056-063-069-240300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI 805 PM CST WED MAR 23 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS ENTER SOUTH..CENTRAL WISCONSIN... RADAR INDICATED AT 8PM CST A LINE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FROM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF DUBUQUE IOWA THROUGH RICHLAND CENTER TO 30 MILES EAST OF LA CROSSE MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL AND MODEST LIGHTNING. f SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE...DODGEVILLE...SPRING GREEN ...REEDSBURG...BARABOO...AND MAUSTON. IF THESE STORMS THREATEN YOU...SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. STIMACH
Special weather statement, Mar 23, 8:24 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before
WIZ032>034-041>047-053>057-061>063-067>069-240330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI 825PM CST WED MAR 24 1994 ...HAIL STICKES SOUTH..CENTRAL WISCONSIN... AT 810PM CST HAIL 1/2 INCH IN SIZE WAS REPORTED IN A THUNDERSTORM AT REWEY IN SOUTHWEST IOWA COUNTY...ABOUT 55 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MADISON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. ALSO IT HAD ACCUMULATED UP TO AN INCH ON THE GROUND. SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...LINDEN...MINERAL POINT... DODGEVILLE...RIDGEWAY...AND BAREVELD. IF THIS STORM THREATENS YOU...SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. STIMACH
Special weather statement, Mar 23, 8:37 PM CST, 1 hour 12 minutes before
WIZ043-055-062-068-044-056-063-069-045-046-047-057-240445- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI 837 PM CST WED MAR 23 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS BOOM AND HAIL IN SOUTH..CENTRAL WISCONSIN... A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON RADAR AT 831PM CST INDICATED POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF 1/2 INCH STRETCHING FROM 35 MILES WEST OF BELOIT TO 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF MADISON. THIS LINE WAS MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF STORMS ARE...MONROE...JANESVILLE ...MADISON...BARABOO...PORTAGE...MONTELLO...MAUSTON...AND WAUTOMA. HAIL HAS ACCUMULATED UP TO AN INCH OR SO ON THE GROUND. IF THESE STORMS THREATEN YOU ...SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. STIMACH &
Special weather statement, Mar 23, 9:02 PM CST, 47 minutes before
WIZ051-052-058>060-064>066-070>072-502-240405- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 900 PM CST WED MAR 23 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 9 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL WISCONSIN. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM NEAR WAUSAU...TO MADISON...THEN SOUTH TO NORTHERN ILLINOIS. THE LINE WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 40 MPH...AS WILL BE MOVING INTO THE SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN COUNTIES OF FOND DU LAC...DODGE...JEFFERSON...AND WALWORTH BY 930 PM. THE LAKE MICHIGAN COUNTIES WILL LIKELY SEE THESE STORMS AROUND 1030 PM. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS...HAIL...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IS POSSIBLE. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN TO WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION* FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. KOCHIS
Special weather statement, Mar 23, 9:16 PM CST, 33 minutes before
WIZ032>034-041>047-053>057-061>063-067>069-240415-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
915PM CST WED MAR 24 1994
...LOTS OF HAIL ACROSS SOUTH..CENTRAL WISCONSIN...
BY 900PM CST THIS EVENING THE FOLLOWING REPORTS OF HAIL HAVE BEEN
ACCOUNTED IN THE AREA...
JUNEAU COUNTY...AT WONEWOC 1/4 TO 1/2 INCH
AT NEECEDA 1/4 TO 1/2 INCH AND GUSTY
GREEN COUNTY....AT MONROE 1/2 INCH
ADAMS COUNTY....AT DELLWOOD PEA SIZE
AT ADAMS 3/8 INCH
MOST LOCATIONS ARE ALSO ACCUMULATING SOME OF THE HAIL UP TO AN INCH.
THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS AT 9PM CST WAS LOCATED FROM JUST WEST OF
JANESVILLE THROUGH MADISON TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF WAUSAU AND WAS MOVING
TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
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IF ANY STORM THREATENS YOU SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER.
STIMACHSpecial weather statement, Mar 23, 9:38 PM CST, 11 minutes before
WIZ001>016-018-241000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 935 PM CST WED MAR 23 1994 ...WINTER STORM WARNING FOR FAR NORTHERN WISCONSIN TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY... THE WARNING AREA IS ROUGHLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM NORTHEAST OF MINNEAPOLIS TO JUST NORTH OF WAUSAU TO MARINETTE. 6 TO 10 INCHES OF SNOW ACCUMULATION ARE EXPECTED IN THE FAR NORTH...NEAR LAKE SUPERIOR. THE REMAINDER OF THE WARNING AREA SHOULD SEE 3 TO 7 INCHES OF ACCUMULATION BY THURSDAY AFTERNOON. A STRONG LOW PRESSURE AREA CENTERED OVER SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN WILL TRACK TO NEAR MILWAUKEE BY THURSDAY MORNING. THIS STORM TRACK IS FAVORABLE FOR SIGNIFICANT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OVER FAR NORTHERN WISCONSIN. SNOW WILL OVERSPREAD THE WARNING AREA DURING THE NIGHTTIME HOURS... BUT MAY BE MIXED AT TIMES WITH SLEET AND FREEZING DRIZZLE. THE PRECIPITATION WILL THEN CHANGE OVER TO ALL SNOW LATER TONIGHT WITH MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOWFALL OCCURING DURING THE EARLY HOURS OF THURSDAY. THE STATE PATROL REPORTS HIGHWAYS OVER FAR NORTHERN WISCONSIN RANGE FROM SNOW COVERED AND SLIPPERY TO ICE COVERED AND HAZARDOUS. TRAVELERS SHOULD EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION IF YOU MUST VENTURE OUT OVER NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE BADGERLAND TONIGHT. ZAJDEL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 9:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 25 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.