Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Milwaukee, WI
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Marquette | 33 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.