Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 11, 1994, 8:02 PM CDT for Milwaukee County, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 1994, 8:02 PM CDT (01:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 1994, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Milwaukee County, WI, Waukesha County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 1998 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 985 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 9.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 120106 TORMKE WIC079-133-120145- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 802 PM CDT MON JUL 11 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...MILWAUKEE COUNTY...NORTHERN WAUKESHA COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN ...SEVERE STORMS WILL PUSH EAST AND SOUTHEAST THROUGH MILWAUKEE AND NORTHERN WAUKESHA COUNTIES... DOPPLER RADAR AT 803 PM SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE STORMS EXTENDING FROM BR0WN DEER CITY BACK TO BROOKFIELD AND OCONOMOWOC. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE CITIES OF WAUWATOSA... WEST MILWAUKEE ... WAUKESHA... AND BROOKFIELD THROUGH 900 PM. FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS NORTH OF WAUKESHA OR 16 MILES WEST OF MIWAUKEE. HAIL OF 1/4 TO 1/2 INCH SIZE HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED. 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. KAPELA/SIEBERS
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 11, 6:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
WIZ051-058-120100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 612 PM CDT MON JUL 11 1994 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING DODGE AND FOND DU LAC COUNTIES... AT 610 PM CDT...A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED IN COLUMBIA AND MARQUETTE COUNTIES FROM ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF MADISON TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF BEAVER DAM TO MONTELLO IN MARQUETTE COUNTY OR ABOUT 45 MILES NORTH OF MADISON. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE LINE OF STORMS WILL AFFECT DODGE AND FOND DU LAC COUNTIES BETWEEN 620 PM AND 730 PM. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF DOWNING TREES AND PRODUCING HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. < A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM. JDH WWUS35KMOB .!
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 6:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
WIZ051-058-120100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 612 PM CDT MON JUL 11 1994 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING DODGE AND FOND DU LAC COUNTIES... AT 610 PM CDT...A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED IN COLUMBIA AND MARQUETTE COUNTIES FROM ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF MADISON TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF BEAVER DAM TO MONTELLO IN MARQUETTE COUNTY OR ABOUT 45 MILES NORTH OF MADISON. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE LINE OF STORMS WILL AFFECT DODGE AND FOND DU LAC COUNTIES BETWEEN 620 PM AND 730 PM. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF DOWNING TREES AND PRODUCING HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. < A TORNADO WATH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM. JDH
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 6:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
WIZ051-058-120100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 612 PM CDT MON JUL 11 1994 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING DODGE AND FOND DU LAC COUNTIES... AT 610 PM CDT...A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED IN COLUMBIA AND MARQUETTE COUNTIES FROM ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF MADISON TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF BEAVER DAM TO MONTELLO IN MARQUETTE COUNTY OR ABOUT 45 MILES NORTH OF MADISON. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE LINE OF STORMS WILL AFFECT DODGE AND FOND DU LAC COUNTIES BETWEEN 620 PM AND 730 PM. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF DOWNING TREES AND PRODUCING HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. < A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM. JDH
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 7:40 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
WIZALL-120300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 740 PM CDT MON JUL 11 1994 ...PARTS OF TORNADO WATCH 602 CANCELLED... THE NORTHWEST PART OF TORNADO WATCH 602 HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE COUNTIES NO LONGER IN EFFECT ARE... WAUPACA JACKSON LA CROSSE MONROE ADAMS JUNEAU MARQUETTE PORTAGE WAUSHARA WOOD CRAWFORD RICHLAND VERNON SAUK THE REMAINDER OF THE TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. HENTZ
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 7:46 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
WIZALL-120300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 740 PM CDT MON JUL 11 1994 ...PARTS OF TORNADO WATCH 602 CANCELLED... THE NORTHWEST PART OF TORNADO WATCH 602 HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE COUNTIES NO LONGER IN EFFECT ARE... WAUPACA JACKSON LA CROSSE MONROE ADAMS JUNEAU MARQUETTE PORTAGE WAUSHARA WOOD CRAWFORD RICHLAND VERNON SAUK THE REMAINDER OF THE TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. HENTZ
Local storm report, Jul 11, 8:00 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
800 PM CDT MON JUL 11 1994
WW# 602 ...ALL TIMES IN CDT...
515 PM JUNEAU COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTS POWER LINES AND NUMEROUS
TREES DOWN...SCATTERED THROUGHOUT COUNTY
530 PM RICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTS TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN IN NORTHERN AND WESTERN PARTS OF COUNTY
545 PM ADAMS COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTS NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWN IN SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP... AND SCATTERED
THROUGHOUT COUNTY
550 PM SAUK COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTS NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN...SCATTERED THROUGHOUT COUNTY
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550 PM COLUMBIA COUNTY REPORTS NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN THROUGHOUT COUNTY
615 PM MARQUTTE COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTS TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN IN EXTREME SOUTHERN PART OF COUNTY
700 PM DANE COUNTY SPOTTERS REPORT TREES DOWN AND 1 INCH HAIL
IN THE TOWNS OF DANE AND WINDSOR
MARIENThe office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 60 min |
| Jul 11, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 21 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.