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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Milwaukee, WI

August 8, 1995Dane County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT for Dane County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 8, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 1995, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Dane County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 184 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, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 1995-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1097 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, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 1995-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1097 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-183 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
829 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMKE 082202 RRA
SVRMKE
WIC025-049-082245-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
500 PM CDT TUE AUG 8 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

   ...EASTERN IOWA COUNTY
   ...SOUTHWESTERN DANE COUNTY

 
AT 500 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH
OF BARNEVELD MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.  THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO
FAR SOUTHWEST DANE COUNTY BY 515 PM AND WILL AFFECT THE DALEYVILLE
AREA.

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

HENTZ

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXSauk44 min
Aug 8, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXIowa38 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.