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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 5, 1995Dodge County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1995, 3:20 PM CDT for Dodge County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 1995, 3:20 PM CDT (20:20 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1995, 4:05 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Dodge County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.3 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1995-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 108 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1995-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 111 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
108 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-209 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1051 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMKE 052019 RRA
SVRMKE
WIC027-052105-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
320 PM CDT WED JUL 5 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 405 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN

   ...DODGE COUNTY

 
AT 317 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY
MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN DOPPLER RADAR 33 MILES NORTHEAST OF MADISON OR 2
MILES SOUTHWEST OF SOUTH BEAVER DAM MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 46 MPH.

THIS SEVERE STORM WILL BE NEAR...
 BEAVER DAM               BY 325 PM CDT
 JUNEAU                   BY 332 PM CDT
 HORICON                  BY 336 PM CDT
 WAUPUN                   BY 341 PM CDT
 IRON RIDGE               BY 343 PM CDT
 MAYVILLE                 BY 343 PM CDT

GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO
WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES.

KRR

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 9:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXIowa, Lafayette49 min
Jul 5, 2:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDane33 min
Jul 5, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXFond du Lac39 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.