Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 1995, 10:19 AM CDT for Jefferson County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 1995, 10:19 AM CDT (15:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 1995, 11:20 AM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 431 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 091518 RRA SVRMKE WIC055-091620- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1019 AM CDT WED AUG 9 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1120 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...JEFFERSON COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL JEFFERSON COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. A HAM RADIO REPORT HAD WINDS AT LEAST 50 MPH JUST EAST OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON AT 1015 AM. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVER STORM ARE SULLIVAN... PALMYRA.. AND FORT ATKINSON. THIS IS DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. KAPELA &
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, Aug 9, 5:27 AM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
WIZALL-091300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 527 AM CDT WED AUG 9 1995 ...SEVERE WEATHER WATCH 931 CANCELLED... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 931 FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL WISCONSIN HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS DIMINISHED IN THAT AREA. HOWEVER...THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST FOR MUCH OF WISCONSIN TODAY...AND THERE IS A THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ESPECIALLY FOR SOUTHERN AND EASTERN WISCONSIN. ZAJDEL
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 5:29 AM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before
WIZALL-091300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 527 AM CDT WED AUG 9 1995 ...SEVERE WEATHER WATCH 931 CANCELLED... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 931 FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL WISCONSIN HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS DIMINISHED IN THAT AREA. HOWEVER...THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST FOR MUCH OF WISCONSIN TODAY...AND THERE IS A THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ESPECIALLY FOR SOUTHERN AND EASTERN WISCONSIN. ZAJDEL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 5:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green Lake | 61 min |
| Aug 9, 6:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac, Green Lake | 38 min |
| Aug 9, 7:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Washington | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 7:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Jefferson, Waukesha | 68 min |
| Aug 9, 8:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Rock, Walworth | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 10:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock, Walworth | 64 min |
| Aug 9, 11:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 60 min |
| Aug 9, 11:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Walworth | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 11:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge | 61 min |
| Aug 9, 12:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Racine, Walworth, Waukesha | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 12:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Walworth | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 42 min |
| Aug 9, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge | 62 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.