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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 15, 1995Waukesha County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1995, 2:54 PM CDT for Waukesha County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 15, 1995, 2:54 PM CDT (19:54 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1995, 3:40 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Waukesha County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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 1995-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 130 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 1995-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -26 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
130 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-228 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1198 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KMKE 151956 RRA
SVRMKE
WIC133-152040-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
254 PM CDT SAT JUL 15 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 340 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN

   ...WAUKESHA COUNTY


AT 250 PM 1 INCH HAIL AND 50 TO 60 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED NEAR
WAUKESHA.  THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL AFFECT
MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL WAUKESHA COUNNTY INCLUDING WAUKESHA ELM GROVE
AND PORTIONS OF BROOKFIELD.

DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

HENTZ/EISE


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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 11:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXSheboygan60 min
Jul 15, 12:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDodge60 min
Jul 15, 12:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXWashington61 min
Jul 15, 12:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXWaukesha66 min
Jul 15, 1:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXOzaukee59 min
Jul 15, 1:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXMilwaukee62 min
Jul 15, 3:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXJefferson48 min
Jul 15, 4:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDane23 min
Jul 15, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXLafayette64 min
Jul 15, 6:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXGreen63 min
Jul 15, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXRock64 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.