Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1994, 5:42 PM CDT for Jefferson County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 1994, 5:42 PM CDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1994, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 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, 10.7 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
- 993 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 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 032306 RRA SVRMKE WIC055-032330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED ...CORRECTED FOR ORIGINAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUANCE TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 542 PM CDT WED AUG 3 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY AT 542 PM CDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THAT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER HEBRON OR 22 MILES NORTHEAST OF JANESVILLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL REACH THE AREA BETWEEN PALMYRA AND SULLIVAN BY 600 PM. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE OVER THE SOUTHWEST PART OF JEFFERSON COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. 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 WIND^OWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. KAPELA
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, Aug 3, 2:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
WIZ043>047-055>057-062-063-068-069-032140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI 240 PM CDT WED AUG 3 1994 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN... AT 232 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN JUNEAU..DANE...GREEN AND ROCK COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN. SOME OF THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINS...WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ALSO POSSIBLE. HOWEVER...NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. THE HEAVIEST STORM WERE LOCATED JUST NORTH OF ALBANY IN GREEN COUNTY...OR 36 MILES SOUTH OF MADISON AND WILL BE MOVING INTO ROCK COUNTY BY 240 PM CDT. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE ORFORDVILLE...HANOVER AND JANESVILLE. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS EAST AT 30 MPH. SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN CAN EXPECT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THIS EVENING. AREA RESIDENTS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS AND IF HEAVY RAINS OR MINOR FLOODING ARE EXPERIENCED WHILE DRIVING...USE CAUTION AS LOW LYING AREAS AND UNDERPASSES MAY BE COVERED WITH WATER. MARIEN NNNN
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 3:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
WIZ051-058-059-064-065-070-052-060-066-071-072-502-032115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 315 PM CDT WED AUG 3 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO INTENSIFY OVER SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 315 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHERN ROCK COUNTY...25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MADISON. ANOTHER STRONG STORM HAD RAPIDLY DEVEOPED OVER OVER SOUTHEAST JEFFERSON COUNTY...NEAR THE TOWN OF PALMYRA. OTHER STORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS WAUKESHA...WASHINGTON...AND WALWORTH COUNTIES. THE RAIN WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE MILWAUKEE METRO AREA WILL SEE THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BY 330 PM. WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MILES AN HOUR...DEADLY GROUND STRIKES OF LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. J LAST
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 3:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
WIZ051-058-059-064-065-070-052-060-066-071-072-502-032115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 315 PM CDT WED AUG 3 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO INTENSIFY OVER SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 315 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHERN ROCK COUNTY...25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MADISON. ANOTHER STRONG STORM HAD RAPIDLY DEVEOPED OVER OVER SOUTHEAST JEFFERSON COUNTY...NEAR THE TOWN OF PALMYRA. OTHER STORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS WAUKESHA...WASHINGTON...AND WALWORTH COUNTIES. THE RAIN WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE MILWAUKEE METRO AREA WILL SEE THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BY 330 PM. WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MILES AN HOUR...DEADLY GROUND STRIKES OF LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. J LAST
Local storm report, Aug 3, 4:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
430 PM CDT WED AUG 3 1994
WW# 683
TIME EVENT
404 PM CDT SPOTTER REPORTED MARBLE SIZED HAIL AND 50 MPH WINDS AT
BRIGGSVILLE IN MARQUETTE COUNTY.
PIERCESpecial weather statement, Aug 3, 5:00 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
WIZ029-030-035-036-032330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 500 PM CDT WED AUG 3 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN... AT 500 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS CENTRAL WISCONSIN 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAUSAU OVER WOOD COUNTY FROM WISCONSIN RAPIDS AND EXTENDED WEST ACROSS SOUTHERN WOOD COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE WISCONSIN RAPIDS AREA BEFORE MOVING INTO PORTAGE COUNTY NEAR AND SOUTH OF STEVENS POINT. THE STORMS PRODUCED HEAVY RAIN AND PEA SIZED HAIL IN WISCONSIN RAPIDS AT 455 PM. HENTZ
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 5:07 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
WIZ029-030-035-036-032330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 500 PM CDT WED AUG 3 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN... AT 500 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS CENTRAL WISCONSIN 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAUSAU OVER WOOD COUNTY FROM WISCONSIN RAPIDS AND EXTENDED WEST ACROSS SOUTHERN WOOD COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE WISCONSIN RAPIDS AREA BEFORE MOVING INTO PORTAGE COUNTY NEAR AND SOUTH OF STEVENS POINT. THE STORMS PRODUCED HEAVY RAIN AND PEA SIZED HAIL IN WISCONSIN RAPIDS AT 455 PM. HENTZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Racine | 54 min |
| Aug 3, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Walworth | 46 min |
| Aug 3, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Racine | 35 min |
| Aug 3, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 25 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.