Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 1995, 11:54 AM CDT for Dodge County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 1995, 11:54 AM CDT (16:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 1995, 12:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dodge County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:55 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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 128 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 091653 RRA SVRMKE WIC027-091755- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1154 AM CDT WED AUG 9 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1255 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...DODGE COUNTY AT 1151 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN DOPPLER RADAR 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FOND DU LAC OR 4 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF WAUPUN MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 28 MPH. THIS SEVERE STORM WILL BE NEAR... MAYVILLE BY 1209 PM CDT HORICON BY 1211 PM CDT JUNEAU BY 1217 PM CDT THERESA BY 1217 PM CDT THIS IS DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. KRR/RS
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, 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, 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
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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.