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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Milwaukee, WI

August 28, 1995Ozaukee County, Washington County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 1995, 8:49 AM CDT for Ozaukee County, Washington County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 28, 1995, 8:49 AM CDT (13:49 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 1995, 9:45 AM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Ozaukee County, WI, Washington County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 122 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 1995-08-28Temperature 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 1995-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 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 28, 6:35 AM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
WIZ006>009-013>022-281200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
635 AM CDT MON AUG 28 1995

...PORTIONS OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 962 CANCELED...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 962 HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

BURNETT...WASHBURN...SAWYER...PRICE...POLK...BARRON...RUSK...
TAYLOR...LINCOLN...LANGLADE...MARINETTE...OCONTO...MENOMINEE...
DOOR.

THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS ENDED IN THESE COUNTIES.

TZ

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 28, 7:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXGreen Lake, Marquette51 min
Aug 28, 7:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXFond du Lac51 min
Aug 28, 9:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXJefferson, Milwaukee, Waukesha63 min
Aug 28, 9:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXKenosha, Racine, Walworth68 min
Aug 28, 9:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXRock68 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.