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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Milwaukee, WI

August 3, 1994Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Aug 3, 1994, 4:40 PM CDT for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 3, 1994, 4:40 PM CDT (21:40 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 1994, 5:05 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Milwaukee County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1994-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1994-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMKE 032142
TORMKE
WIC079-032215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
440 PM CDT WED AUG 3 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN
 
   ...NORTHERN MILWAUKEE COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN
 
WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER THE CITY
OF WAUWATOSA...OR 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE CITY OF MILWAUKEE. THE PARENT
THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. IF YOU LIVE INN THE NORTH
SIDE OF MILWAUKEE TAKE COVER NOW!
 
BY 5 PM CDT THIS STORM WILL BE OVER THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF LAKE
MICHIGAN.
 
IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE
INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  GET TO
A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE.  ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND CARS
AND GO TO A REINFORCEDn SHELTER.
 
KAPELA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 3:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXRacine54 min
Aug 3, 3:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXKenosha, Walworth46 min
Aug 3, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXMilwaukee, Racine35 min
Aug 3, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXMilwaukee, Waukesha45 min
Aug 3, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXJefferson48 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.