Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1996, 6:28 PM CDT for Walworth County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports 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, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1996, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Walworth County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 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, 6:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Walworth, WI | |
| Jun 2, 7:23 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy Center, 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 994 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 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 022328 SVRMKE WIC127-030030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 628 PM CDT SUN JUN 2 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS EXTENDED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...WALWORTH COUNTY A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED IN WESTERN WALWORTH COUNTY NEAR MILLARD 21 MILES EAST OF JANESVILLE. THE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL BE AFFECTING ELKHORN TIBBETS AND EAST TROY BY 645 PM. ANOTHER CLUSTER OF STORMS WAS MOVING OUT OF SOUTHEAST ROCK COUNTY AND WILL AFFECT THE WALWORTH CZOUNTY TOWNS OF ALLENS GROVE... WALWORTH AND DELAVAN BEFORE 645 PM. THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock, Walworth | 38 min |
| Jun 2, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Racine | 43 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
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.