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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 31, 1995Columbia County, Dane County, Dodge County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1995, 7:23 PM CDT for Columbia County, Dane County, Dodge County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 31, 1995, 7:23 PM CDT (00:23 UTC)
Expired
Jul 31, 1995, 8:25 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Columbia County, WI, Dane County, WI, Dodge County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 154 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 00:00Z on 1995-08-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 557 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 00:00Z on 1995-08-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 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
557 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1452 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 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 010024 RRA
SVRMKE
WIC021-025-027-010125-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
723 PM CDT MON JUL 31 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 825 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

   ...EASTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY
   ...DANE COUNTY

IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN

   ...DODGE COUNTY


 
AT 720 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NORTHEAST OF
WAUNAKEE IN NORTHERN DANE COUNTY.  THIS STORM WAS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO EASTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY EAST
OF LODI AFTER 730 PM.

ANOTHER SEVERE THUNLDERSTORM WAS NEAR FOX LAKE IN NORTHWEST DODGE
COUNTY.  THIS STORM WAS ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

HENTZ

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 31, 7:10 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
WIZ022-038>040-045>052-054>072-010500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
710 PM CDT MON JUL 31 1995

...HEAT ADVISORY CANCELLED...

THE HEAT ADVISORY EARLIER IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE SOUTHEAST HALF
OF WISCONSIN HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT FROM NEAR
GREEN BAY TO EASTERN IOWA HAS GENERATED SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS
THUNDERSTORMS AHEAD OF IT.  THIS HAS BROUGHT RELIEF FOR MUCH OF
THE SOUTH AND EASTERN PARTS OF THE STATE.

JDH
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 7:11 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
WIZ022-038>040-045>052-054>072-010500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
710 PM CDT MON JUL 31 1995

...HEAT ADVISORY CANCELLED...

THE HEAT ADVISORY EARLIER IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE SOUTHEAST HALF
OF WISCONSIN HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT FROM NEAR
GREEN BAY TO EASTERN IOWA HAS GENERATED SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS
THUNDERSTORMS AHEAD OF IT.  THIS HAS BROUGHT RELIEF FOR MUCH OF
THE SOUTH AND EASTERN PARTS OF THE STATE.

JDH

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.