Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Milwaukee, WI
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
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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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green Lake | 27 min |
| Aug 13, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 57 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.