Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Milwaukee, WI
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.
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 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.
- 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
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.