Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1995, 5:56 PM CDT for Dodge County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1995, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1995, 6:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dodge County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 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 272257 RRA SVRMKE WIC027-272355- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 556 PM CDT THU JUL 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 655 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...DODGE COUNTY AT 555 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN PORTLAND WHICH IS 23 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF MADISON TO DANVILLE WHICH IS 28 MILES NORTHEAST OF MADISON...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. EXPECT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WITH THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE BEAVER DAM...HORICON AND LEBANON. THIS IS DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa, Lafayette | 60 min |
| 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, 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 |
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.