Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1995, 7:35 PM CDT for Jefferson County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 1995, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 1995, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 1324 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 842 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 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 230035 RRA SVRMKE WIC055-230115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 735 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...JEFFERSON COUNTY AT 733 PM CDT...THE JEFFERSON COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED ESTIMATED WINDS OF 60 MPH AND TREE LIMBS DOWN IN LAKE MILLS. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND WOULD AFFECT THE TOWNS OF JOHNSON CREEK...JEFFERSON...FORT ATKINSON AND PALMYRA UNTIL 815 PM. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY`. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! GARCIA &
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, 2 hours 57 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, 2 hours 56 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
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 7:03 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
WIZ061-230100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DUBUQUE IA ISSUED BY MADISON WI 702 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 1995 AT 658PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A HEAVY THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF DUBUQUE IOWA MOVING TOWARDS THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM MAY HAVE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS REDUCING VISIBILITIES TO NEAR ZERO AT TIME...INTENESE LIGHTNING...WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH AND HAIL. SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...TENNYSON...DICKEYVILLE LOUISBURG...CUBA CITY...AND PLATTEVILLE. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU...SEEK IMMEDIATE INDOOR SHELTER. STIMACH
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 7:09 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
WIZ061-230115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI 707 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 1995 ...HEAVY THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES GRANT COUNTY... AT 658PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A HEAVY THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF DUBUQUE IOWA MOVING TOWARDS THE EAST AT 25 MPH. THE STORM MAY HAVE BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS REDUCING VISIBILITIES TO NEAR ZERO...HAIL ...WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH AND INTENSE LIGHTNING. SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THE STORM ARE...POTOSI...TENNYSON...DICKEYVILLE...LOUISBURG...CUBA CITY...AND PLATTEVILLE. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU...SEEK IMMEDIATE INDOOR SHELTER. STIMACH
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.