Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 1995, 12:58 PM CDT for Dodge County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 1995, 12:58 PM CDT (17:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 1995, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 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 17:59 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, 6.0 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 WUUS1 KMKE 091800 RRA SVRMKE WIC027-055-091900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1258 PM CDT WED AUG 9 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...SOUTHERN DODGE COUNTY ...JEFFERSON COUNTY AT 1256 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN DOPPLER RADAR NEAR NEOSHO MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS SEVERE STORM WILL BE NEAR... LEBANON BY 105 PM CDT ALDERLEY BY 109 PM CDT IXONIA BY 115 PM CDT WATERTOWN BY 115 PM CDT RICHWOOD BY 117 PM CDT FARMINGTON BY 124 PM CDT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DAVIS/BROWNING
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, 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 |
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.