Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1994, 4:58 PM CDT for Jefferson County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 1994, 4:58 PM CDT (21:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1994, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 1662 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 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 KMKE 062159 SVRMKE WIC055-062230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 458 PM CDT WED JUL 6 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...JEFFERSON COUNTY AT 456 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF FORT ATKINSON...20 MILES NORTHEAST OF JANESVILLE. THE STORM IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL HEAD TOWARD THE TOWNS OF FORT ATKINSON...JEFFERSON...AND HELENVILLE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE ORn NO ADVANCE WARNING. IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE...MOVE TO A REINFORCED SHELTER. IF INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. ZAJDEL
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, Jul 6, 4:36 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
WIZ056-057-062-063-067>069-062240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI 436 PM CDT WED JUL 6 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN... AT 433 PM CDT RADAR DETECTED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LONE ROCK OR 40 MILES WEST OF MADISON TO 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF MADISON NEAR COLUMBUS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. PIERCE
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 4:36 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
WIZ056-057-062-063-067>069-062240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI 436 PM CDT WED JUL 6 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN... AT 433 PM CDT RADAR DETECTED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LONE ROCK OR 40 MILES WEST OF MADISON TO 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF MADISON NEAR COLUMBUS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. PIERCE
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 4:52 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
WIZ058-064-062300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 451 PM CDT WED JUL 6 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER JEFFERSON COUNTY... AT 450 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR WATERTOWN TO JEFFERSON TO FORT ATKINSON OR ABOUT 20 TO 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF JANESVILLE. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS CURRENTLY LOCATED NEAR FORT ATKINSON. WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40 MILES AN HOUR...SMALL HAIL...DEADLY GROUND STRIKES OF LIGHTNING...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS CAN BE EXPECTED AS THESE STORMS MOVE INTO SOUTHERN DODGE COUNTY NEAR LEBANON COUNT\Y AND EASTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY NEAR IXONIA...FARMINGTON...AND HELENVILLE. ZAJDEL/HOGGATT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 63 min |
| Jul 6, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Racine | 61 min |
| Jul 6, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge | 40 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.