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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Milwaukee, WI

August 16, 1995Columbia County, Dane County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1995, 5:48 PM CDT for Columbia County, Dane County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 16, 1995, 5:48 PM CDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 1995, 6:19 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Columbia County, WI, Dane County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 169 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 1995-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 1995-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-183 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
668 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 162250 RRA
SVRMKE
WIC021-025-162330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
548 PM CDT WED AUG 16 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 16, 5:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXJefferson62 min
Aug 16, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDodge62 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.