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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Milwaukee, WI

May 9, 1995Green County, Lafayette County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1995, 7:38 PM CDT for Green County, Lafayette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 9, 1995, 7:38 PM CDT (00:38 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 1995, 8:13 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Green County, WI, Lafayette County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 128 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 173 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -133 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
173 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
711 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMKE 100037
SVRMKE
WIC045-065-100140-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
738 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 840 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

   ...LAFAYETTE AND GREEN COUNTY

 
AT 735 PM CDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
MOVING INTO SOUTHERN LAFAYETTE AND GREEN COUNTIES.  TOWNS IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE SOUTH WAYNE AND GRATIOT IN LAFAYETTE
COUNTY AND MONROE AND BROWNTOWN IN GREEN COUNTY.

THE STORM IS MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.  EXPECT WINDS IN EXCESS OF$ 55
MPH AS THESE STORMS CROSS THE WISCONSIN/ILLINOIS BORDER.

THIS IS DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

DAVIS

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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.