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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Milwaukee, WI

August 13, 1995Sheboygan County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1995, 4:15 PM CDT for Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 13, 1995, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired
Aug 13, 1995, 4:45 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Sheboygan County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 84 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1995-08-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 79 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1995-08-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 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
79 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-213 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1408 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KMKE 132117 RRA
SVRMKE
LMZ501-WIC117-WIZ502-132145-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
415 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN
THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN

   ...SHEBOYGAN COUNTY

AND A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CDT
FOR THE WISCONSIN WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN EAST OF...

   ...SHEBOYGAN

   ...AND THE OPEN WATERS OUT TO MID LAKE.

AT 415 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN THE
TOWNS OF PLYMOUTH AND SHEBOYGAN FALLS. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST AT
30MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE CITIES OF KOHLER AND SHEBOYGAN. AT 410
PM GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT PLYMOUTH.
 
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR IMMEDIATELY.  THE APPROACHING STORM
WILL MAKE BOATING DIFFICULT DUE TO HIGH WINDS...STEEP WAVES...AND
LIGHTNING STRIKES.
&
MK

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 13, 3:50 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
WIZ014>040-045-048>050-140900-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
350 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN EXTENDED THROUGH
TONIGHT...

THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TONIGHT ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN
WISCONSIN.  SOME OF THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS ON
AREAS WHERE THE GROUND IS CLOSE TO SATURATION FROM THUNDERSTORMS DURING
THE LAST TWO DAYS.  AS A RESULT...THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN
EXTENDED THROUGH TONIGHT.

MK
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 3:51 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
WIZ014>040-045-048>050-140900-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
350 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN EXTENDED THROUGH
TONIGHT...

THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TONIGHT ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN
WISCONSIN.  SOME OF THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS ON
AREAS WHERE THE GROUND IS CLOSE TO SATURATION FROM THUNDERSTORMS DURING
THE LAST TWO DAYS.  AS A RESULT...THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN
EXTENDED THROUGH TONIGHT.

MK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 13, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXGreen Lake27 min
Aug 13, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXFond du Lac57 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.