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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Milwaukee, WI

August 16, 1995Sauk County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1995, 7:28 PM CDT for Sauk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 16, 1995, 7:28 PM CDT (00:28 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Whole counties

County Sauk County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 189 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 433 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 536 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KMKE 170032 RRA
SVRMKE
WIC111-170100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
728 PM CDT WED AUG 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN
 
   ...NORTHERN SAUK COUNTY
 
AT 730 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF LAKE DELTON.
THERE HAS BEEN A REPORT OF A BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN AT 725 PM...BUT IT
CAUSED ONLY MINIMAL DAMAGE.
 
THE TORNADO WAS NOT REPORTED TO BE ON THE GROUND ANYMORE.
 
THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE
WISCONSIN DELLS REGION THROUGH 800 PM.
 
DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINS ARE LIKELY.  GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!
 
TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LITTLE WARNING.
 
 
 
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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

Local storm report, Aug 16, 6:52 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
655 PM CDT WED AUG 16 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

615-630 PM   CITY OF JEFFERSON       WI   NUMEROUS TREES/PWR LNS DOWN
08/16/95     JEFFERSON CO.                IN CITY OF JEFFERSON AND
                                          A LARGE AREA SURROUNDING
                                         > THE CITY.

JDH

Local storm report, Aug 16, 6:55 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
655 PM CDT WED AUG 16 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

615-630 PM   CITY OF JEFFERSON       WI   NUMEROUS TREES/PWR LNS DOWN
08/16/95     JEFFERSON CO.                IN CITY OF JEFFERSON AND
                                          A LARGE AREA SURROUNDING
                                          THE CITY.

JDH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 16, 7:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MKX	Dodge, Jefferson, Waukesha	5 hr

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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.