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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 27, 1995Kenosha County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT for Kenosha County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 27, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Kenosha County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 213 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1995-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1995-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMKE 272332 RRA
SVRMKE
LMZ501-WIC059-079-101-WIZ502-280130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN
THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN

   ...MILWAUKEE COUNTY
   ...RACINE COUNTY
   ...KENOSHA COUNTY

AND A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT
FOR THE WISCONSIN WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN EAST OF...

   ...MILWAUKEE TO KENOSHA

   ...AND THE OPEN WATERS OUT TO MID LAKE.

AT 630 PM CDT A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR
WAUKESHA TO LAKE GENEVA WHICH IS 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MILWAUKEE.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL
AFFECT THE CITIES RACINE...KENOSHA...AND MILWAUKEE.
THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS.
 
GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO
WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES.

BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR IMMEDIATELY.  THE APPROACHING STORM
WILL MAKE BOATING DIFFICULTF DUE TO HIGH WINDS...STEEP WAVES...AND
LIGHTNING STRIKES.

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, 18 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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXIowa, Lafayette60 min
Jul 27, 4:27 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXIowa48 min
Jul 27, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDane, Green60 min
Jul 27, 4:47 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXDane48 min
Jul 27, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDane57 min
Jul 27, 5:16 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXGreen, Rock49 min
Jul 27, 5:22 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXDane48 min
Jul 27, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXJefferson60 min
Jul 27, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDodge59 min
Jul 27, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXWalworth58 min
Jul 27, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXRock33 min
Jul 27, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXWaukesha61 min
Jul 27, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXMilwaukee, Racine60 min
Jul 27, 6:58 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXKenosha, Racine62 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.