Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1996, 5:43 PM CDT for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 47 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
- Jun 2, 1996, 5:43 PM CDT (22:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1996, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Milwaukee County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 5:58 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Brown Deer, 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 503 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 022243 SVRMKE LMZ530-WIC079-WIZ527-528-022330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 543 PM CDT SUN JUN 2 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...MILWAUKEE COUNTY AND A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR THE WISCONSIN WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN EAST OF... ...PORT WASHINGTON TO WIND POINT ...AND THE OPEN WATERS OUT TO MID LAKE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING INTO WESTERN MILWAUKEE COUNTY. AT 538 PM CDT PEA SIZE HAIL AND WINDS TO 45 MPH WERE REPORTED IN THE CITY OF WAUKESHA. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL BE AFFECTING WAWAUTOSA...GLENDALE AND THE CITY OF MILWAUKEE BY 550PM. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSI&DE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR IMMEDIATELY. THE APPROACHING STORM WILL MAKE BOATING DIFFICULT DUE TO HIGH WINDS...STEEP WAVES...AND LIGHTNING STRIKES. TZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Ozaukee, Washington | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock, Walworth | 38 min |
| Jun 2, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth | 62 min |
| Jun 2, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Racine | 43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.