Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1994, 3:36 PM CDT for Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 1994, 3:36 PM CDT (20:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 1994, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sheboygan County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 768 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1001 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 292031 RRA SVRMKE WIC117-292145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 336 PM CDT FRI JUL 29 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...SHEBOYGAN COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN AT 330 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE CITY OF SHEBOYGAN. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT AROUND 10 MPH...AND WILL BE AFFECTING THE TOWNS OF KOHLER...SHEBOYGAN FALLS...A GIBBSVILLE BY 4 PM. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL. 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 RA*INS 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, Jul 29, 3:06 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
WIC039-117-292115- SPECIAL WEATHER AND MARINE STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 309 PM CDT FRI JUL 29 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 300 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. THE STORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER FOND DU LAC AND SHEBOYGAN COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORM...LOCATED NEAR THE CITY OF NORTH FOND DU LAC... JUST NORTH OF THE CITY OF FOND DU LAC...REPORTED 1/2 INCH HAIL. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH IN SHEBOYGAN COUNTY...13 MILES WEST OF THE CITY OF SHEBOYGAN. BOTH OF THESE STORMS WERE DRIFTING TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MPH AND WILL BE PASSING OVER SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF SHEBOYGAN AND FOND DU LAC COUNTY FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. UP TO 1/2 INCH HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. PERSONS IN THE MENTIONED COUNTIES SHOULD LISTEN TO LATER STATMENTS. HELMAN &
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 3:09 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
WIC039-117-292115- SPECIAL WEATHER AND MARINE STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 309 PM CDT FRI JUL 29 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 300 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. THE STORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER FOND DU LAC AND SHEBOYGAN COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORM...LOCATED NEAR THE CITY OF NORTH FOND DU LAC... JUST NORTH OF THE CITY OF FOND DU LAC...REPORTED 1/2 INCH HAIL. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH IN SHEBOYGAN COUNTY...13 MILES WEST OF THE CITY OF SHEBOYGAN. BOTH OF THESE STORMS WERE DRIFTING TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MPH AND WILL BE PASSING OVER SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF SHEBOYGAN AND FOND DU LAC COUNTY FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. UP TO 1/2 INCH HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. PERSONS IN THE MENTIONED COUNTIES SHOULD LISTEN TO LATER STATMENTS. HELMAN &
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.