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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Milwaukee, WI

August 19, 1994Waukesha County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1994, 12:52 PM CDT for Waukesha County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued: Aug 19, 1994, 12:52 PM CDT (17:52 UTC)
Expired: Aug 19, 1994, 1:45 PM CDT
In force: 53 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, 5.9 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -245 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 690 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, Aug 19, 11:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 19, 11:49 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 19, 12:12 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 19, 12:15 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 19, 12:36 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

WIZ017-191840-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
1236 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 1994

...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING NORTHERN TAYLOR COUNTY...

AT 1235 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED INTENSE
THUNDERSTORMS NEAR HANNIBAL AND JUMP RIVER IN NORTHWESTERN TAYLOR
COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.  SOME CITIES
IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE MURAT...PERKINSTOWN...AND MEDFORD.

THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND STRONG
WINDS TO 45 MPH.

HOGGATT

Special weather statement, Aug 19, 12:41 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

WIZ017-191840-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
1236 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 1994

...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING NORTHERN TAYLOR COUNTY...

AT 1235 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED INTENSE
THUNDERSTORMS NEAR HANNIBAL AND JUMP RIVER IN NORTHWESTERN TAYLOR
COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.  SOME CITIES
IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE MURAT...PERKINSTOWN...AND MEDFORD.

THZESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND STRONG
WINDS TO 45 MPH.

HOGGATT

The office that day

Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 19, 12:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Jefferson	22 min
Aug 19, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Lincoln, Taylor	48 min
Aug 19, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Marathon	49 min
Aug 19, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Lafayette	36 min
Aug 19, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Marathon	52 min
Aug 19, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Portage, Wood	64 min
Aug 19, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Portage	61 min
Aug 19, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Kenosha	46 min

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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.