Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 1995, 4:48 PM CDT for Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 18, 1995, 4:48 PM CDT (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 1995, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ozaukee County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 1143 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 182150 SVRMKE WIC059-079-089-101-WIZ502-182245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 448 PM CDT TUE APR 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...KENOSHA COUNTY...MILWAUKEE COUNTY...OZAUKEE COUNTY ...RACINE COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF ...LAKE MICHIGAN AT 445 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. AT 442 PM UP TO 1 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR SILVER LAKE IN KENOSHA COUNTY. ALL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 TO 60 MPH AND WILL AFFECT MILWAUKEE...PORT WASHINGTON...RACINE...UNION GROVE. BOATERS ON LAKE MICHIGAN SHOULD MOVE TO SHORE IMMEDIATELY AS THESE STORMS APPROACH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS! COLLAR/KAPELA/RIZZO &
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, Apr 18, 12:46 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
WIZ056>058-063-064-068>070-181830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1245 PM CDT MON APR 18 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR PARTS OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED TOWARD EAST AND EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. AS A RESULT...THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE NO LONGER IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH...SAUK...COLOMBIA...DODGE DANE...JEFFERSON...GREEN...ROCK...WALWORTH. HELMAN
Special weather statement, Apr 18, 1:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
WIZ059>060-065-066-071-072-181830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 115 PM CDT TUE APR 18 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR THE REMAINDER OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED OUT OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN. AS A RESULT...THE THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ACROSS SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ARE NO LONGER IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH...WASHINGTON...OZAUKEE WAUKESHA...MILWAUKEE...RACINE AND lKENOSHA. HELMAN
Local storm report, Apr 18, 3:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
325 PM CDT TUE APR 18 1995
TIME /CDT/ ....CITY LOCATION.... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
...COUNTY LOCATION...
1119 AM SOUTH OF BROOKLYN WI WIND DAMAGE
04/18/95 ON KING RD BARN BLOWN DOWN.
GREEN CO.
1122 AM 2 NNW OF BELOIT WI WIND DAMAGE/UNCONFIRMED
04/18/95 ROCK CO. TORNADO/
TREES/POWER LINES DOWN
AROUND GREEDY RD.
1134 AM 2 TO 3 W OF EDGERTON WI WIND DAMAGE
04/18/95 ROCK CO. POWER LINES DOWN AND
SECTION OF HWY 59 CLOSED.
KAPELALocal storm report, Apr 18, 3:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
337 PM CDT TUE APR 18 1995
TIME /CDT/ ....CITY LOCATION.... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
...COUNTY LOCATION...
1119 AM SOUTH OF BROOKLYN WI WIND DAMAGE
04/18/95 ON KING RD BARN BLOWN DOWN.
GREEN CO.
1122 AM 2 NNW OF BELOIT WI WIND DAMAGE/UNCONFIRMED
04/18/95 ROCK CO. TORNADO/
TREES/POWER LINES DOWN
AROUND GREEDY RD.
1134 AM 2 TO 3 W OF EDGERTON WI WIND DAMAGE
04/18/95 ROCK CO. POWER LINES DOWN AND
SECTION OF HWY 59 CLOSED.
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1134 AM 5 TO 6 W OF EDGERTON WI WIND DAMAGE
04/18/95 ROCK CO. ROOF BLOWN OFF BUILDING.
KAPELAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 10:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa, Lafayette | 38 min |
| Apr 18, 10:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Rock | 61 min |
| Apr 18, 10:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green | 27 min |
| Apr 18, 11:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa, Lafayette | 21 min |
| Apr 18, 11:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Rock | 23 min |
| Apr 18, 11:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Walworth | 38 min |
| Apr 18, 11:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington | 55 min |
| Apr 18, 11:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Racine, Waukesha | 36 min |
| Apr 18, 11:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha | 36 min |
| Apr 18, 11:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia | 36 min |
| Apr 18, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine | 57 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.