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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 22, 1995Columbia County, Green Lake County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1995, 5:52 PM CDT for Columbia County, Green Lake County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 22, 1995, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 1995, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Columbia County, WI, Green Lake County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 10.9 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 1995-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 118 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 1995-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 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
118 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-288 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1485 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
51 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 222254 RRA
SVRMKE
WIC021-047-077-222345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
552 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...NORTHERN COLUMBIA COUNTY...GREEN LAKE COUNTY
   ...SOUTHERN MARQUETTE COUNTY
 
AT 555 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
IN SOUTHERN MARQUETTE AND SOUTHERN GREEN LAKE AND NORTHERN COLUMBIA
MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE
WITH THSES STORMS.
 
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY.  GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!
 
COLLAR/CG

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

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 4:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
WIZ043-044-222245-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
438 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 1995

AT 433PM CDT RADAR INDICATED SOME HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WITH POSSIBLE
HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH...LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWN POURS. THIS
LINE OF STORM STRETCHED FROM VALATON...56 MILES NORTHWEST OF MADISON...
TO 5 MILES WEST OF NECEDAH...30 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF WISCONSIN
RAPIDS. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING TOWARDS THE EAST-SOUTHEAST 20 TO
25 MPH.

IF ANY OF THESE STORMS THREATEN YOU...SEEK IMMEDIATE INDOOR SHELTER.
STIMACH
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 4:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
WIZ043-044-222245-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
438 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 1995

AT 433PM CDT RADAR INDICATED SOME HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WITH POSSIBLE
HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH...LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWN POURS. THIS
LINE OF STORM STRETCHED FROM VALATON...56 MILES NORTHWEST OF MADISON...
TO 5 MILES WEST OF NECEDAH...30 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF WISCONSIN
RAPIDS. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING TOWARDS THE EAST-SOUTHEAS(T 20 TO
25 MPH.

IF ANY OF THESE STORMS THREATEN YOU...SEEK IMMEDIATE INDOOR SHELTER.
STIMACH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXMarquette33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.