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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Milwaukee, WI

August 13, 1995Green Lake County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1995, 5:48 PM CDT for Green Lake County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 13, 1995, 5:48 PM CDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired
Aug 13, 1995, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Green Lake County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 107 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 
TTAA00 KMKE 132251 RRA
SVRMKE
WIC047-039-132345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
548 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...EASTERN GREEN LAKE COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN
 
   ...FOND DU LAC COUNTY
 
AT 650 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM NEAR THE CITY OF
GREEN LAKE IN GREEN LAKE COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT
30 MPH AND WILL BE REACHING THE CITY OF RIPON...19 MILES WEST
NORTHWEST OF FOND DU LAC...BY 605 PM.
 
THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.  STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS!
 
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, 1 hour 58 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, 1 hour 57 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, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXSheboygan30 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.