Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1995, 5:04 PM CDT for Dane County, Jefferson County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1995, 5:04 PM CDT (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1995, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dane County, WI, Jefferson County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 1288 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 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 062204 RRA SVRMKE WIC025-055-062305- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 504 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 605 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...EASTERN DANE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...WESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY AT 5 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED NEAR UTICA AND STOUGHTON 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MADISON. THIS STORM HAD PRODUCED MARBLE SIZED HAIL AND HAS SINCE INTENSIFIED AND WILL MOVE INTO THE CAMBRIDGE AND LONDON AREAS OF DANE COUNTY BY 515 PM AND WILL EVENTUALLY MOVE TOWARD LAKE MILLS IN JEFFERSON COUNTY AROUND 530 PM. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ALSO BLINDING HEAVY RAIN AND SOME LOW LAND FLOODING ARE POSSIBLE. BROWNING/DAVIS/HENTZ
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, Jun 6, 11:42 AM CDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before
WIZ045>047-051-056>059-062>065-067>070-070035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1142 AM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN WISCONSIN. A VERY MOIST AND INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS IN PLACE OVER THE STATE...AND AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM OVER MINNESOTA WILL ACT TO TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON. THE STORMS WILL LIKELY FORM THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE WESTERN PART OF THE STATE...AND THEN MOVE INTO THE CENTRAL SECTIONS AFTER 3 PM. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. IT APPEARS AT THIS TIME THAT THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...HOWEVER ISOLATED TORNADOES MAY DEVELOP. THE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER DIMINISHES ALONG THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES IN FAR EASTERN WISCONSIN...HOWEVER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THERE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON. BROWNING/JDH.
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 11:43 AM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before
WIZ045>047-051-056>059-062>065-067>070-070035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1142 AM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN WISCONSIN. A VERY MOIST AND INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS IN PLACE OVER THE STATE...AND AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM OVER MINNESOTA WILL ACT TO TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON. THE STORMS WILL LIKELY FORM THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE WESTERN PART OF THE STATE...AND THEN MOVE INTO THE CENTRAL SECTIONS AFTER 3 PM. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. IT APPEARS AT THIS TIME THAT THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...HOWEVER ISOLATED TORNADOES MAY DEVELOP. THE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER DIMINISHES ALONG THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES IN FAR EASTERN WISCONSIN...HOWEVER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THERE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON. BROWNING/JDH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Walworth | 49 min |
| Jun 6, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Racine | 37 min |
| Jun 6, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Fond du Lac | 58 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.