Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 1994, 7:29 PM CDT for Kenosha County, Racine County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 18, 1994, 7:29 PM CDT (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 1994, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kenosha County, WI, Racine County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2802 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 190029 SVRMKE WIC059-079-101-190130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 729 PM CDT MON APR 18 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...KENOSHA COUNTY...MILWAUKEE COUNTY...RACINE COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN AT 725 PM CDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT TO HEAD INTO MILWAUKEE...RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES. THE LINE OF SEVERE STORMS EXTENDS FROM SULLIVAN IN JEFFERSON COUNTY...WHICH IS 35 MILES WEST OF MILWAUKEE...THROUGH EAGLE TO DELAVAN IN WALWORTH COUNTY...DELAVAN IS 20 MILES EAST OF JANESVILLE. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT GREATER THAN 50 MPH TOWARD MILWAUKEE ...RACINE AND KENOSHA. THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL REPORTS OF WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MPH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. DAVIS &
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, Apr 18, 5:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
WIZ043>047-055>057-062-063-068-069-182355- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI 552 PM CDT MON APR 18 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN WISCONSIN... A FEW ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN CRAWFORD AND GRANT COUNTIES IN WESTERN WISCONSIN WITHIN THE LAST HOUR. THERE HAVE BEEN UNOFFICIAL REPORTS OF STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS WITH THESE STORMS WHICH ARE LOCATED NEAR MT STERLING ...37 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF LA CROSSE...AND MUSCODA IN GRANT COUNTY...50 MILES NORTH-NORTHEAST OF DUBUQUE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN RICHLAND AND IOWA COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THE APPROACH OF THESE STORMLS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER MC MAHON
Special weather statement, Apr 18, 6:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
WIZ051-052-058>060-064>066-070>072-502-190200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 600 PM CDT MON APR 18 1994 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 600 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING FROM SOUTHWEST INTO SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE STORMS WAS EAST OF LONE ROCK RACING EAST AT 45 TO 50 MPH. THE SCATTERED STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO FAR SOUTHERN DODGE... JEFFERSON AND WALWORTH COUNTIES AROUND 7 PM...AND THEN INTO WAUKESHA ...MILWAUKEE...RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES BY 8 PM. THESE STORMS CONTAIN BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. IF YOU SEE THESE STORMS APPROACHING FROM THE WEST TAKE SHELTER. SANDLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 48 min |
| Apr 18, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 61 min |
| Apr 18, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth | 18 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.