Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 27, 1995, 5:16 PM CDT for Green County, Rock County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1995, 5:16 PM CDT (22:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1995, 6:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Green County, WI, Rock County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 832 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 272218 TORMKE WIC045-105-272305- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 516 PM CDT THU JUL 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 605 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...EASTERN GREEN COUNTY ...ROCK COUNTY AT 515 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR NEW GLARUS 23 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MADISON TO NEAR MONROE 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MADISON. SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH ARE BROADHEAD...JANESVILLE...BELOIT AND HANOVER. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. KOCHIS/LA GREE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa, Lafayette | 60 min |
| Jul 27, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Iowa | 48 min |
| Jul 27, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Green | 60 min |
| Jul 27, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dane | 48 min |
| Jul 27, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane | 57 min |
| Jul 27, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dane | 48 min |
| Jul 27, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 60 min |
| Jul 27, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge | 59 min |
| Jul 27, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth | 58 min |
| Jul 27, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock | 33 min |
| Jul 27, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 61 min |
| Jul 27, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Racine | 60 min |
| Jul 27, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha | 60 min |
| Jul 27, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 62 min |
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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.