Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 1995, 7:24 AM CDT for Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 28, 1995, 7:24 AM CDT (12:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 1995, 8:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fond du Lac County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 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 281226 RRA SVRMKE WIC047-077-039-281315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 724 AM CDT MON AUG 28 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...GREEN LAKE COUNTY...MARQUETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...FOND DU LAC COUNTY AT 725 AM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN GREEN LAKE AND MARQUETTE COUNTIES FROM BERLIN TO WESTFIELD. THE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL BE AFFECTING THE TOWNS OF MONTELLO...GREEN LAKE...AND RIPON BY 735 AM. AT 720 AM 60 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED IN THE CITY OF BERLIN IN GREEN LAKE COUINTY. TREES AND POWER LINES WERE REPORTED DOWNED. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! TZ/TH &
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 28, 6:35 AM CDT, 49 minutes before
WIZ006>009-013>022-281200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 635 AM CDT MON AUG 28 1995 ...PORTIONS OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 962 CANCELED... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 962 HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... BURNETT...WASHBURN...SAWYER...PRICE...POLK...BARRON...RUSK... TAYLOR...LINCOLN...LANGLADE...MARINETTE...OCONTO...MENOMINEE... DOOR. THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS ENDED IN THESE COUNTIES. TZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 7:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green Lake, Marquette | 51 min |
| Aug 28, 8:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Ozaukee, Washington | 56 min |
| Aug 28, 9:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Milwaukee, Waukesha | 63 min |
| Aug 28, 9:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Walworth | 68 min |
| Aug 28, 9:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock | 68 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.