Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1994, 5:52 PM CDT for Waukesha County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 1994, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1994, 6:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Waukesha County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 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
- 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
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, Jul 6, 4:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 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, 1 hour 16 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, 1 hour 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
Local storm report, Jul 6, 5:40 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 32 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.