Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 1995, 10:31 AM CDT for Rock County, Walworth County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 1995, 10:31 AM CDT (15:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 1995, 11:35 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Rock County, WI, Walworth County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:34 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 2688 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 772 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMKE 091530 RRA SVRMKE WIC105-127-091635- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1031 AM CDT WED AUG 9 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1135 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...EASTERN ROCK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...WALWORTH COUNTY DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF JEFFERSON COUNTY AT 1030 AM. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL REACH THE AREA AROUND WHITEWATER AND EAST TROY BY 1050 AM. 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, 5 hours 4 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, 5 hours 2 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, 10:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 61 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.