Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 1995, 11:16 AM CDT for Kenosha County, Racine County, Walworth County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 1995, 11:16 AM CDT (16:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 1995, 12:03 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kenosha County, WI, Racine County, WI, Walworth County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:20 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 431 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 091615 TORMKE WIC059-101-127-091715- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1116 AM CDT WED AUG 9 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...EASTERN WALWORTH COUNTY ...WESTERN RACINE COUNTY ...WESTERN KENOSHA COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO DEVELOPING 5 MILES EAST ELKHORN IN EASTERN WALWORTH COUNTY AT 1115 AM. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE LAKE GENEVA... AND SPRINGFIELD IN WALWORTH COUNTY... BURLINGTON IN WESTERN RACINE COUNTY... AND SILVER LAKE IN WESTERN KENOSHA COUNTY. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. KAPELA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 5:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green Lake | 61 min |
| Aug 9, 6:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac, Green Lake | 38 min |
| Aug 9, 7:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Washington | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 7:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Jefferson, Waukesha | 68 min |
| Aug 9, 8:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Rock, Walworth | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 10:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 61 min |
| Aug 9, 10:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock, Walworth | 64 min |
| Aug 9, 11:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 60 min |
| Aug 9, 11:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge | 61 min |
| Aug 9, 12:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Racine, Walworth, Waukesha | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 12:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Walworth | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 42 min |
| Aug 9, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge | 62 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.