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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Milwaukee, WI

August 28, 1995Rock County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 1995, 9:37 AM CDT for Rock County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 28, 1995, 9:37 AM CDT (14:37 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 1995, 10:45 AM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Rock County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 166 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, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 1995-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 872 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 1995-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 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
872 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1233 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 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 
WUUS1 KMKE 281439 RRA
SVRMKE
WIC105-059-101-127-281545-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
937 AM CDT MON AUG 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH WISCONSIN
 
   ...ROCK COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN
 
   ...KENOSHA COUNTY...RACINE COUNTY...WALWORTH COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN
 
 
AT 940 AM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
MOVING INTO NORTHERN ROCK...WALWORTH...RACINE...AND KENOSHA COUNTIES.
THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MPH. TORRENTIAL
RAINS...HAIL UP TO 3/4 INCH HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 60 MPH ARE
POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. IN ADDITION URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING
IS POSSIBLE.
 
 
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY.  GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!
 
 
MK

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, 3 hours 2 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, 8:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXOzaukee, Washington56 min
Aug 28, 9:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXJefferson, Milwaukee, Waukesha63 min
Aug 28, 9:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXKenosha, Racine, Walworth68 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.