Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1995, 6:19 PM CDT for Waukesha County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1995, 6:19 PM CDT (23:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1995, 7:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Waukesha County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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 272321 RRA SVRMKE WIC133-280020- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 619 PM CDT THU JUL 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 720 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...WAUKESHA COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF WAUKESHA AT 620 PM A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM EAGLE WHICH IS 30 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF MILWAUKEE TO FONTANA WHICH IS 24 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JANESVILLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF MUKWONAGO...BIG BEND...MUSKEGO AND WAUKESHA. EXPECT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WITH THESE 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
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 27, 6:12 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
WIZ020-021-029>031-034>039-042>046-048-049-055-056-280000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 612 PM CDT THU JUL 27 1995 ...PORTIONS OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 871 CANCELLED... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 871 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... CLARK...JACKSON...MONROE...MARATHON...WOOD...PORTAGE...OCONTO... MENOMINEE...SHAWANO...WAUPACA...WAUSHARA...OUTAGAMIE... WINNEABAGO...BROWN...CALUMET...ADAMS...JUNEAU...RICHLAND...SAUK ...MARQUETTE. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE IN THE ABOVE COUNTIES THROUGH MIDNIGHT...BUT THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERTORMS HAS DIMINISHED. ZAJDEL /
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, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth | 58 min |
| Jul 27, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock | 33 min |
| Jul 27, 6:30 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.