Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 1996, 8:23 PM CDT for Waukesha County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 57 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 18, 1996, 8:23 PM CDT (01:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 1996, 9:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Waukesha County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:24 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 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1430 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 190125 SVRMKE WIC133-190230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 823 PM CDT THU APR 18 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 920 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...NORTHERN WAUKESHA COUNTY AT 815 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DOUSMAN...WHICH IS 27 MILES WEST OF MILWAUKEE. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 40 MPH. IT WILL PASS THROUGH OR CLOSE TO HARTLAND BY 845 PM...THEN HEAD TOWARD BROOKFIELD AND MENOMONEE FALLS. WIND GUSTS TO 62 MPH FROM THIS STORM WERE RECORDED AT THE NATIONAL` WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE NEAR SULLIVAN AT 810 PM. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES. & NJ
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 18, 6:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
WIZ009>072-190100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 620 PM CDT THU APR 18 1996 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WISCONSIN HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 182...CLARK...JACKSON...WOOD...MONROE...JUNEAU...ADAMS... VERNON...CRAWFORD...AND RICHLAND. THE REST OF THE TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF EASTERN AND CENTRAL WISCONSIN REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM THIS EVENING. HELMAN
Special weather statement, Apr 18, 6:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
WIZ009>072-190100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 700 PM CDT THU APR 18 1996 AT 700 PM THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WISCONSIN HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM TORNADO WATCH ZNUMBER 182...ONEIDA...LINCOLN...MARATHON...AND PORTAGE. THE REST OF THE TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF EASTERN AND PARTS OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM THIS EVENING. HELMAN
Special weather statement, Apr 18, 7:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
WIZ009>072-190100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 715 PM CDT THU APR 18 1996 AT 715 PM THE FOLLOWING COUNTY IN WISCONSIN HAS BEEN CLEARED FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 182...GRANT. THE REST OF THE TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF EASTERN AND PARTS OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM THIS EVENING. HELMAN
Special weather statement, Apr 18, 7:45 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
WIZ011>013-019>022-031-037>039-045>049-051-056>057-062-067-190200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 745 PM CDT THU APR 18 1996 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WISCONSIN HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 182: FOREST..FLORENCE...MARINETTE...LANGLADE...OCONTO...MENOMINEE...SHAWANO.. WAUPACA...OUTAGAMIE...BROWN...WAUSHARA...WINNEBAGO...CALUMET...MARQUETTE ...GREEN LAKE...FOND DU LAC...SAUK...COLUMBIA...IOWhA...LAFAYETTE...DOOR. THE REST OF THE TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF EASTERN AND SOUTHERN WISCONSIN REMAINS IN EFFECT. JOHNSTON
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.