Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 1995, 9:27 AM CDT for Jefferson County, Milwaukee County, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 28, 1995, 9:27 AM CDT (14:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 1995, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jefferson County, WI, Milwaukee County, WI, Waukesha County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMKE 281430 RRA SVRMKE WIC055-079-133-281530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 927 AM CDT MON AUG 28 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...JEFFERSON COUNTY...MILWAUKEE COUNTY...WAUKESHA COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN AT 828 AM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH JEFFERSON...WAUKESHA...AND MILWAUKEE COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 35 MPH...AND WILL BE MOVING INTO WALWORTH...RACINE...AND KENOSHA COUNTIES BY 10 AM. TORRENTIAL RAINS...AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. HAIL UP TO 3/4 INCH IS ALSO POSSIBLE. NUMEROUS REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED OF TREES AND POWER LINES BEING BLOWEN DOWN. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! &
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 52 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 7:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green Lake, Marquette | 51 min |
| Aug 28, 7:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 51 min |
| Aug 28, 8:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Ozaukee, Washington | 56 min |
| Aug 28, 9:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Walworth | 68 min |
| Aug 28, 9:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock | 68 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.