Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 1995, 7:09 AM CDT for Fond du Lac County, Sheboygan County, Washington County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 1995, 7:09 AM CDT (12:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 1995, 7:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fond du Lac County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI, Washington County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:12 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 95 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 091211 TORMKE WIC039-117-131-091245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 709 AM CDT WED AUG 9 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...EASTERN FOND DU LAC COUNTY...WESTERN SHEBOYGAN COUNTY ...NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN AT 710 AM A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS OBSERVED NEAR THE CITY OF CAMPBELLSPORT. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CONTAINING THIS FUNNEL CLOUD IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL BE AFFECTING THE FOLLOWING THE CITIES...CAMPBELLSPORT BEECHWOOD...BATAVIA IN FOND DU LAC COUNTY...KEWASKUM AND SAINT MICHAELS IN WASHINGTON COUNTY. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! TH/TZ
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, 7:37 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, 11:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Walworth | 47 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.