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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 27, 1995Iowa County, Lafayette County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1995, 4:10 PM CDT for Iowa County, Lafayette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 27, 1995, 4:10 PM CDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 1995, 5:10 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Iowa County, WI, Lafayette County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 832 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 851 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 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 272112 RRA
SVRMKE
WIC049-065-272210-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
410 PM CDT THU JUL 27 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 510 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

   ...IOWA COUNTY
   ...LAFAYETTE COUNTY

AT 410 PM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 19 MILES NORTHEAST OF
DUBUQUE NEAR LEAD MINE TO 29 MILES NORTHEAST OF DUBUQUE
NEAR MIFLIN. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE DODGEVILLE
CALAMINE AND DARLINGTON. EXPECT LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WITH
THESE THUNDERSTORMS.
 
GO INSIDE A STURDY pBUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO
WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES.

KOCHIS/LA GREE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 4:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Iowa	48 min
Jul 27, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane, Green	60 min
Jul 27, 4:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dane	48 min
Jul 27, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane	57 min
Jul 27, 5:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Green, Rock	49 min
Jul 27, 5:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dane	48 min
Jul 27, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Jefferson	60 min
Jul 27, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dodge	59 min
Jul 27, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Walworth	58 min
Jul 27, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Rock	33 min
Jul 27, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Waukesha	61 min
Jul 27, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Milwaukee, Racine	60 min
Jul 27, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Kenosha	60 min
Jul 27, 6:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Kenosha, Racine	62 min

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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.