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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 15, 1995Dane County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1995, 7:28 PM CDT for Dane County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 15, 1995, 7:28 PM CDT (00:28 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 1995, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Whole counties

County Dane County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 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

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 184 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2760 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1313 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMKE 160028 RRA
SVRMKE
WIC025-160130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

   ...DANE COUNTY

 
AT 725 PM TREES WERE REPORTED DOWN NEAR OREGON 11 MILES SOUTH OF
MADISON.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL
AFFECT MUCH OF DANE COUNTY INCLUDING MADISON.

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

HENTZ/JDH
 

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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

Local storm report, Jul 15, 6:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
605 PM CDT SAT JUL 15 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1100 AM      PLYMOUTH/ELKHART LAKE   WI   2 TREES DOWN.
07/15/95       SHEBOYGAN CO.

1123 AM                              WI   DIME SIZE HAIL...SPOTTER
07/15/95       SHEBOYGAN CO.              REPORT.

1220 PM      2 MI. E. OF BEAVER DAM  WI   ONE INCH HAIL.
07/15/95        DODGE CO.

1222 PM       NEAR BEAVER DAM        WI   GOLBALL SIZE HAIL.
07/15/95        DODGE CO.

1229 PM       NEAR ROLLING PRAIRIE   WI   NEAR BASEBALL SIZE HAIL.
07/15/95          DODGE CO.

1245 PM             ADDISON           WI   55 MPH WINDS.
07/15/95        WASHINGTON CO.

123 PM             HARTLAND           WI   GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL.
07/15/95         WAUKESHA CO.

207 PM             BROOKFIELD         WI   NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
07/15/95         WAUKESHA CO.

210 PM            BROWN DEER          WI   2 TREES DOWN AND GAZEBO
07/15/95          MILWAUKEE CO.            DESTROYED AT CHANNEL 6.

545 PM            KENOSHA             WI   60-65 MPH WINDS CLOCKED
07/15/95          KENOSHA CO.              BY COAST GUARD.

545 PM            KENOSHA             WI   75 MPH WINDS CLOCKED AT
07/15/95          KENOSHA CO.              AIRPORT. BEECHCRAFT SPUN
                                           AROUND 180 DEGREES.

Local storm report, Jul 15, 7:20 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT                   ...COR TV 6 REPORT...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
720 PM CDT SAT JUL 15 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1100 AM      PLYMOUTH/ELKHART LAKE   WI   2 TREES DOWN.
07/15/95       SHEBOYGAN CO.

1123 AM                              WI   DIME SIZE HAIL...SPOTTER
07/15/95       SHEBOYGAN CO.              REPORT.

1220 PM      2 MI. E. OF BEAVER DAM  WI   ONE INCH HAIL.
07/15/95        DODGE CO.

1222 PM       NEAR BEAVER DAM        WI   GOLBALL SIZE HAIL.
07/15/95        DODGE CO.

1229 PM       NEAR ROLLING PRAIRIE   WI   NEAR BASEBALL SIZE HAIL.
07/15/95          DODGE CO.

1245 PM             ADDISON           WI   55 MPH WINDS.
07/15/95        WASHINGTON CO.

123 PM             HARTLAND           WI   GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL.
07/15/95         WAUKESHA CO.

207 PM             BROOKFIELD         WI   NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
07/15/95         WAUKESHA CO.

1200 PM            BROWN DEER          WI  BRANCHES DOWN AND GAZEBO
07/15/95          MILWAUKEE CO.            DESTROYED AT CHANNEL 6.

545 PM            KENOSHA             WI   60-65 MPH WINDS CLOCKED
07/15/95          KENOSHA CO.              BY COAST GUARD.

545 PM            KENOSHA             WI   75 MPH WINDS CLOCKED AT
07/15/95          KENOSHA CO.              AIRPORT. BEECHCRAFT SPUN
                                           AROUND 180 DEGREES.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 15, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Green	31 min
Jul 15, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Jefferson	60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1995 Every 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.