Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Milwaukee, WI
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.
- 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 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sheboygan | 30 min |
| Aug 13, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 57 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.