Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1995, 6:02 PM CDT for Walworth County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1995, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Walworth County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 272303 RRA SVRMKE WIC127-280000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 602 PM CDT THU JUL 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...WALWORTH COUNTY AT 600 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN JANESVILLE AND MILTON JUNCTION 8 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF JANESVILLE...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. SOME COMMUNITIES THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE WHITEWATER...DELAVAN...LAKE GENEVA AND WANDAWEGA. EXPECT LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WITH THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING 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, 4:10 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, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge | 59 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.