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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Milwaukee, WI

May 16, 1995Sauk County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1995, 6:16 PM CDT for Sauk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 16, 1995, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1995, 6:47 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Sauk County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 189 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 1995-05-16Temperature 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 1995-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 188 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1727 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
269 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 
TTAA00 KMKE 162318
SVRMKE
WIC111-170020-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
616 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 720 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

   ...SAUK COUNTY

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WAS LOCATED BETWEEN BARABOO AND
REEDSBURG MOVING EAST ABOUT 30 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGEING
WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS SEVERE STORM.

ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL ENTER THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAUK
COUNTY AND REACH THE LAVALLE ARE BY 630 PM. 
 
THESE STORMS ARE DANGEROUS. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

KAPELA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXSauk62 min

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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.