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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 4, 1995Iowa County, Lafayette County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 9:51 PM CDT for Iowa County, Lafayette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 4, 1995, 9:51 PM CDT (02:51 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 1995, 10:40 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Iowa County, WI, Lafayette County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 138 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 1995-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 403 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 1995-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 186 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
403 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1293 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
186 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
230 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMKE 050252 RRA
SVRMKE
WIC049-065-050350-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
951 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1040 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

   ...IOWA COUNTY
   ...LAFAYETTE COUNTY
 
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR DAYTON IN GRANT
COUNTY...OR ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHSOUTHWEST OF MADISON...TO NEAR
DAVENPORT IOWA.  THIS LINE WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WINDS
OF 60 TO 70 MPH.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTOR\Y OF DAMAGING WINDS. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

JDH
 

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 2:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDane33 min
Jul 5, 3:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDodge45 min
Jul 5, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXFond du Lac39 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.