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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 27, 1995, 5:22 PM CDT for Dane County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1995, 5:22 PM CDT (22:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1995, 6:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dane County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 184 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 272224 TORMKE WIC025-272310- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 522 PM CDT THU JUL 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 610 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...EASTERN DANE COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF MADISON AT 523 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR OREGON 11 MILES SOUTH OF MADISON MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH ARE STOUGHTON COTTAGE GROVE AND CAMBRIDGE. 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, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Green, Rock | 49 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 |
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.