Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1994, 11:02 PM CDT for Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 31, 1994, 11:02 PM CDT (04:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 1994, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fond du Lac County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 617 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1267 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMKE 010402 RRA SVRMKE WIC039-010500- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1102 PM CDT SUN JUL 31 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...FOND DU LAC COUNTY AT 1058 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE TOWN OF BRANDON IN WESTERN FOND DU LAC COUNTY...17 MILES WEST OF THE TOWN OF FOND DU LAC. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT AROUND 20 MPH. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM ARE LADOGA...ROSENDALE...AND WAUPUN. THESE TOWNS WILL BE AFFECT BY 1115 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE...MOVE TO A REINFORCED SHELTER. IF INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MK
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 31, 10:09 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
WIZALL-010430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1010 PM CDT SUN JUL 31 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 674 EXPIRED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT HAD BEEN IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF WEST AND SOUTHERN WISCONSIN HAS EXPIRED. ALTHOUGH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN... NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. AT 1010 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM NEAR WAUSAU TO EAST OF LA CROSSE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 20 MPH...AND WILL BE AFFECTING MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BE@EN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. HOWEVER...SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINS. MK
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 10:10 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
WIZALL-010430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1010 PM CDT SUN JUL 31 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 674 EXPIRED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT HAD BEEN IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF WEST AND SOUTHERN WISCONSIN HAS EXPIRED. ALTHOUGH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN... NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. AT 1010 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM NEAR WAUSAU TO EAST OF LA CROSSE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 20 MPH...AND WILL BE AFFECTING MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. HOWEVER...SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINS. MK
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 10:20 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
WIZ043>047-055>057-062-063-068-069-010425- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI 1020 PM CDT SUN JUL 31 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 674 HAS EXPIRED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS ISSUED FOR A PORTION OF SOUTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN HAS EXPIRED. AT 1017 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A BROKEN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM JANESVILLE..THROUGH MADISON..TO WAUSAU. THE STRONGEST STORMS IN SOUTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN WERE IN NORTHEASTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY NEAR RANDOLPH AND CAMBRIA...OR 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF MADISON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. SOME OF THESE STORMS STILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. MC MAHON
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 10:22 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
WIZ043>047-055>057-062-063-068-069-010425- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI 1020 PM CDT SUN JUL 31 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 674 HAS EXPIRED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS ISSUED FOR A PORTION OF SOUTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN HAS EXPIRED. AT 1017 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A BROKEN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM JANESVILLE..THROUGH MADISON..TO WAUSAU. THE STRONGEST STORMS IN SOUTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN WERE IN NORTHEASTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY NEAR RANDOLPH AND CAMBRIA...OR 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF MADISON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. SOME OF THESE STORMS STILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND FREQUENT CLOUD TOj GROUND LIGHTNING. MC MAHON
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 10:50 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
WIZALL-010600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1050 PM CDT SUN JUL 31 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN PARTS OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 1045 PM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM BRANDON IN WESTERN FOND DU LAC COUNTY...WHICH IS 17 MILES WEST OF FOND DU LAC...TO DANVILLE IN DODGE COUNTY...WHICH IS 28 MILES NORTHEAST OF MADISON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST NEAR 20 MPH...AND SHOULD PASS THROUGH THE REST OF FOND DU LAC AND DODGE COUNTIES BETWEEN 1055 PM AND MIDNIGHT. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. BUT THEY DO APPEAR CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND POSSIBLY STRONG WINDS. JOHNSTON JOHNSTON
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 11:00 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
WIZALL-010600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1050 PM CDT SUN JUL 31 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN PARTS OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 1045 PM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM BRANDON IN WESTERN FOND DU LAC COUNTY...WHICH IS 17 MILES WEST OF FOND DU LAC...TO DANVILLE IN DODGE COUNTY...WHICH IS 28 MILES NORTHEAST OF MADISON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST NEAR 20 MPH...AND SHOULD PASS THROUGH THE REST OF FOND DU LAC AND DODGE COUNTIES BETWEEN 1055 PM AND MIDNIGHT. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. BUT THEY DO APPEAR CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND POSSIBLY STRONG WINDS. JOHNSTON JOHNSTON
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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.