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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Milwaukee, WI

August 28, 1995Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

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.

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, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1995-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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
 
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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

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 28, 7:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXGreen Lake, Marquette51 min
Aug 28, 8:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXOzaukee, Washington56 min
Aug 28, 9:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXJefferson, Milwaukee, Waukesha63 min
Aug 28, 9:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXKenosha, Racine, Walworth68 min
Aug 28, 9:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXRock68 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.