Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1995, 11:42 PM CDT for Kenosha County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1995, 11:42 PM CDT (04:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 1995, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 33 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 04:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 607 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 997 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 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 280443 RRA SVRMKE LMZ501-WIC059-WIZ502-280515- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1142 PM CDT THU JUL 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...KENOSHA COUNTY AND A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FOR THE WISCONSIN WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN EAST OF... ...KENOSHA ...AND THE OPEN WATERS OUT TO MID LAKE. AT 1145 PM A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR IN SULLIVAN NEAR THE CITY OF KENOSHA AND BRISTOL 12 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF KENOSHA...MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS IS DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR IMMEDIATELY. THE APPROACHING STORM WILL MAKE BOATING DIFFICUL@T DUE TO HIGH WINDS...STEEP WAVES...AND LIGHTNING STRIKES. ZAJDEL/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, 5 hours 30 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 /
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 7:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before
WIZ040-047-050>052-057>072-280100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 748 PM CDT THU JUL 27 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 870 CANCELLED... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 871 CANCELLED... ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 872 CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 870 FOR PARTS OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 871 FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN WISCONSIN HAVE BEEN CANCELLED. ONLY TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 872 CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE IN THE ABOVE COUNTIES THROUGH MIDNIGHT...BUT THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERTORMS HAS DIMINISHED EXCEPT FOR RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES. ZAJDEL
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 7:49 PM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
WIZ040-047-050>052-057>072-280100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 748 PM CDT THU JUL 27 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 870 CANCELLED... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 871 CANCELLED... ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 872 CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 870 FOR PARTS OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 871 FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN WISCONSIN HAVE BEEN CANCELLED. ONLY TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 872 CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE IN THE ABOVE COUNTIES THROUGH MIDNIGHT...BUT THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERTORMS HAS DIMINISHED EXCEPT FOR RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES. ZAJDEL
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 8:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
WIZ071-072-280130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 805 PM CDT THU JUL 27 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 872 CANCELLED FOR RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 872 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE IN THE ABOVE COUNTIES THROUGH MIDNIGHT...BUT THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERTORMS HAS DIMINISHED. ZAJDEL
Local storm report, Jul 27, 10:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
1000 PM CDT THU JUL 27 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
415-430 PM REWEY WI HIGH WINDS - TREES/POWER
07/27/95 IOWA CO. KNOCKED DOWN.
415-445 PM SCATTERED AREAS WI HIGH WINDS - TREES/POWER
07/27/95 LAFAYETTE CO. LINES KNOCKED DOWN.
440-515 PM SCATTERED AREAS WI HIGH WINDS - TREES/POWER
07/27/95 GREEN CO. LINES KNOCKED DOWN.
530 PM MT. VERNON WI HIGH WINDS - 4 FOOT DIAMETER
07/27/95 DANE CO. TREE KNOCKED DOWN. HAM RADIO
REPORT.
540 PM 1 NE STOUGHTON WI HIGH WINDS - 3 INCH DIAMETER
07/27/95 DANE CO. TREES BLOWN OVER. SPOTTER.
605 PM 6 SE CAMBRIDGE WI 1 INCH DIAMETER HAIL -
07/27/95 JEFFERSON CO. SPOTTER REPORT.
630 PM JANESVILLE WI HIGH WINDS - LARGE TREES AND
07/27/95 ROCK CO. POWER LINES KNOCKED DOWN.
630-645 PM SCATTERED AREAS WI HIGH WINDS - TREES AND POWER
07/27/95 WALWORTH CO. LINES KNOCKED DOWN.
635 PM FONTANA WI HIGH WINDS - LOTS OF TREES
07/27/95 WALWORTH CO. KNOCKED DOWN.
642 PM SPRING PRAIRIE WI HIGH WINDS - TREES KNOCKED
07/27/95 WALWORTH CO. WINDS MAY HAVE BEEN OVER 80
MPH.
710 PM MERTON WI HIGH WINDS - 3 INCH DIAMETER
07/27/95 WAUKESHA CO. TREES WERE HORIZONTAL. HAMS.
715 PM NORTH CAPE WI HIGH WINDS AND PEA SIZE HAIL.
07/27/95 RACINE CO. HAM RADIO REPORT.
720 PM 4SW RACINE WI HIGH WINDS AND 1/2 INCH
07/27/95 RACINE CO. DIAMETER HAIL. HAM REPORT.
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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.