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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 24, 1988Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1988, 3:04 PM CDT for Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 24, 1988, 3:04 PM CDT (20:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 24, 1988, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Whole counties

County Fond du Lac County, WI

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 24, 3:07 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Fond Du Lac, WI

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 86 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 176 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1453 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMKE 242004
SVRMKE
WIC039-242030-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI
304 PM CDT SUN JUL 24 1988

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF WISCONSIN
      FOND-DU-LAC

AT 258 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
CENTRAL FOND DU LAC COUNTY..ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF THE CITY OF
FOND DU LAC.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE
AFFECTING THE TOWNS OF EDEN..DOTYVILLE..WAUCOUTSTA AND DUNDEE
DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADWAYS QUICKLY...
AVOID DRIVING INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 24, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Portage	64 min
Jul 24, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Marathon	33 min
Jul 24, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Marathon	32 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.