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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Milwaukee, WI

August 18, 1988Kenosha County, Racine County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 1988, 3:58 PM CDT for Kenosha County, Racine County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 18, 1988, 3:58 PM CDT (20:58 UTC)
Expired
Aug 18, 1988, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Kenosha County, WI, Racine County, WI

The radar

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

The nearest sounding before it

Peoria Regional, IL (KPIA), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 265 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, Peoria Regional, IL at 12:00Z on 1988-08-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2579 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, Peoria Regional, IL at 12:00Z on 1988-08-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 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
2579 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1449 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 18, 2:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDodge, Fond du Lac37 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.