Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 15, 1994, 5:09 PM CDT for Clark County, Taylor County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 15, 1994, 5:09 PM CDT (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 1994, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clark County, WI, Taylor County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 631 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 825 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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, Sep 15, 4:53 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
WIZ043-044-055-056-152355- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI 453 PM CDT THU SEP 15 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CROSSING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER... AT 443 PM CDT RADAR DETECTED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN ENTERING WESTERN AND SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE WEST OF A LINE FROM 50 MILES WEST OF WAUSAU...TO 30 MILES WEST OF DUBUQUE IOWA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH. SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE RICHLAND CENTER...REEDSBURG ...MAUSTON...NECEDAH...FRIENDSHIP. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. PIERCE
Special weather statement, Sep 15, 4:55 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
WIZ017-029-152300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 455 PM CDT THU SEP 15 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HEADING TOWARDS TAYLOR AND CLARK COUNTIES... AT 450 PM CDT...A SOLID LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR EAGLETON IN CHIPPEWA COUNTY...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHNORTHEAST OF EAU CLAIRE TO FOSTER...OR 15 MILES SOUTHSOUTHEAST OF EAU CLAIRE. THE LINE WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH AND TREES DOWN IN THE EAU CLAIRE AREA...ALSO FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. THESE STORMS WILL BE APPROACHING THE WESTERN PARTS OF THE COUNTIES OF TALOR AND CLARK BETWEEN 515 PM AND 530 PM...AND THEN THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THOSE COUNTIES AFTER 530 PM. < IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. JDH
Special weather statement, Sep 15, 4:59 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
WIZ017-029-152300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 455 PM CDT THU SEP 15 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HEADING TOWARDS TAYLOR AND CLARK COUNTIES... AT 450 PM CDT...A SOLID LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR EAGLETON IN CHIPPEWA COUNTY...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHNORTHEAST OF EAU CLAIRE TO FOSTER...OR 15 MILES SOUTHSOUTHEAST OF EAU CLAIRE. THE LINE WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH AND TREES DOWN IN THE EAU CLAIRE AREA...ALSO FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. THESE STORMS WILL BE APPROACHING THE WESTERN PARTS OF THE COUNTIES OF TALOR AND CLARK BETWEEN 515 PM AND &530 PM...AND THEN THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THOSE COUNTIES AFTER 530 PM. < IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. JDH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Taylor | 36 min |
| Sep 15, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Marathon, Portage, Wood | 65 min |
| Sep 15, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Lincoln | 27 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.