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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 27, 1995Kenosha County, Racine County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 27, 1995, 6:58 PM CDT for Kenosha County, Racine County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 27, 1995, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Kenosha County, WI, Racine County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:00 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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 205 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 1995-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 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
885 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 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 
TTAA00 KMKE 280000 RRA
TORMKE
WIC059-101-280100-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
658 PM CDT THU JUL 27 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN

   ...RACINE COUNTY
   ...KENOSHA COUNTY

AT 700 PM A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND IN LYONS WHICH IS 35
MILES SOUTHWEST OF MILWAUKEE. TOWNS IN THE PATH INCLUDE
BURLINGTON...ROCHESTER AND SILVER LAKE. 
 
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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXIowa, Lafayette60 min
Jul 27, 4:27 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXIowa48 min
Jul 27, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDane, Green60 min
Jul 27, 4:47 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXDane48 min
Jul 27, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDane57 min
Jul 27, 5:16 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXGreen, Rock49 min
Jul 27, 5:22 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXDane48 min
Jul 27, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXJefferson60 min
Jul 27, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDodge59 min
Jul 27, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXWalworth58 min
Jul 27, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXRock33 min
Jul 27, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXWaukesha61 min
Jul 27, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXMilwaukee, Racine60 min
Jul 27, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXKenosha60 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.