Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 1995, 11:37 AM CDT for Jefferson County, Walworth County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 18, 1995, 11:37 AM CDT (16:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 1995, 12:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jefferson County, WI, Walworth County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 1143 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 181639 SVRMKE WIC055-127-181715- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1137 AM CDT TUE APR 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...JEFFERSON COUNTY...WALWORTH COUNTY A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BLOW THROUGH JEFFERSON AND AND WALWORTH COUNTIES THROUGH 1200 PM CDT. THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL REPORTS OF BARNS BEING DAMAGED AND OTHER BUILDING DAMAGE BACK IN ROCK AND GREEN COUNTIES SINCE 1100 AM. BY 1200 PM THE SEVERE STORMS WILL BE ON A LINE FROM WATERTOWN TO EAST OF THE LAKE GENEVA AREA. KAPELA THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 10:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa, Lafayette | 38 min |
| Apr 18, 10:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Rock | 61 min |
| Apr 18, 10:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green | 27 min |
| Apr 18, 11:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa, Lafayette | 21 min |
| Apr 18, 11:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Rock | 23 min |
| Apr 18, 11:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington | 55 min |
| Apr 18, 11:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Racine, Waukesha | 36 min |
| Apr 18, 11:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha | 36 min |
| Apr 18, 11:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia | 36 min |
| Apr 18, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine | 57 min |
| Apr 18, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Ozaukee | 57 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.